| Hosea 1:1 |
The word of Jehovah which came to Hosea the son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash the king of Israel. |
| Hosea 1:2 |
At the beginning of Jehovah's speaking to Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotries / And children of harlotries, / For the land is entirely given over to harlotry, / [And thus departs] from Jehovah. |
| Hosea 1:3 |
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim. And she conceived and bore him a son. |
| Hosea 1:4 |
And Jehovah said to him, / Call his name Jezreel, / For yet a little while / And I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel / Upon the house of Jehu / And will bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. |
| Hosea 1:5 |
And in that day / I will break the bow of Israel / In the valley of Jezreel. |
| Hosea 1:6 |
And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah, / For I will no longer have compassion / On the house of Israel, / That I should forgive them at all. |
| Hosea 1:7 |
But on the house of Judah I will have compassion and will save them by Jehovah their God, and I will not save them by bow or by sword or by battle, by horses or by horsemen. |
| Hosea 1:8 |
When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. |
| Hosea 1:9 |
And He said, / Call his name Lo-ammi, / For you are not My people, / And I will not belong to you. |
| Hosea 1:10 |
But the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, / Which cannot be measured or numbered; / And in the place where it will be said to them, You are not My people, / It will be said to them, [You are] the sons of the living God. |
| Hosea 1:11 |
And the children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, / And they will appoint for themselves one head, and they will go up from the land, / For great will be the day of Jezreel. |