Hosea’s Wife and Children

1The word of YHWH that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash,† king of Israel.

2The beginning when YHWH first spoke by Hosea, YHWH said to Hosea, “Go take for yourself a wife of prostitution, and children of prostitution, for the land is flagrantly prostituting itself from after YHWH!”

3And he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore to him a son.

4And YHWH said to him: “Call his name Jezreel;† for yet a little and I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and I will bring to an end the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5And it will come to pass in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”

6And his wife conceived again, and she bore a daughter. And He said to him: “Call her name Lo-ruhamah,† for no longer will I continue to have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever lift the for them. 7And on the house of Judah I will have compassion, and I will save them, by YHWH their God; I will not save them by bow, or by sword, or by battle, by horses, or by horsemen.”

8And she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, and she conceived and bore a son. 9And He said, “Call his name Lo-ammi,† for you⁺ are not My people, and I am not unto you⁺!

10And the number of the sons of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured and cannot be counted; and it will come to pass, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You⁺ are not My people,’ it will be said of them, ‘Sons of the living God.†’ 11And the sons of Judah and the sons 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.