On the other hand, the view that a brokenhearted Hosea saw the hand of God in his marriage to Gomer only after she had broken faith with him is even more troubling. It suggests that the divine call to marry Gomer may have been no more than the rationalization of a man trying to make sense of his shattered life. Most significantly, the text clearly states that first Hosea received a command to marry an immoral woman and then did so (1:2–3). By process of elimination, we have arrived at interpretation