[1] The word of Yahweh that 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, king of Israel. [2] When Yahweh spoke at the
first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, Go, take to you a wife of
prostitution and children of prostitution; for the land does commit great
prostitution, [departing] from Yahweh. [3] So he went and took Gomer the
daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son. [4] Yahweh said
to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge
the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of
the house of Israel to cease. [5] It shall happen at that day, that I will
break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. [6] She conceived again,
and bore a daughter. [Yahweh] said to him, Call her name Look-ruhamah; for
I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any wise
pardon them. [7] But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save
them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor
by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. [8] Now when she had weaned
Look-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. [9] [Yahweh] said, Call his
name Look-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your [God].
[10] Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the
sea, which can`t be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that,
in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, it shall be
said to them, [You are] the sons of the living God. [11] The children of
Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall
appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land; for great shall
be the day of Jezreel.
