Hosea 1

Chapter 1

Hosea’s Wife and Children

¹The word of the Lord which came to ^aHosea the son of Beeri, during the days of ^bUzziah, ^cJotham, ^dAhaz and ^eHezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of ^fJeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

²When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “^aGo, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for ^bthe land commits flagrant harlotry, ¹forsaking the Lord.”

³So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and ^abore him a son.

⁴And the Lord said to him, “Name him ^aJezreel; for yet a little while, and ^bI will ¹punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and ^cI will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

⁵“On that day I will ^abreak the bow of Israel in the ^bvalley of Jezreel.”

⁶Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And ¹the Lord said to him, “Name her ²Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer ^ahave compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.

⁷“But I will have ^acompassion on the house of Judah and ^bdeliver them by the Lord their God, and will not deliver them by ^cbow, sword, battle, horses or horsemen.”

⁸When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.

⁹And ¹the Lord said, “Name him ²Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not ³your God.”

¹⁰¹Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the ^asand of the sea,

Which cannot be measured or numbered;

And ^bin the place

Where it is said to them,

“You are ^cnot My people,”

It will be said to them,

“You are the ^dsons of the living God.”

¹¹And the ^asons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be ^bgathered together,

And they will appoint for themselves ^cone leader,

And they will go up from the land,

For great will be the day of Jezreel.