Hosea
The Book of Hosheaʽ
1 Jehovah’s word that came to Hosheaʽ the son of Beeri in the times of Kings ʽUzzijah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, of Judah; and the beginning of Jehovah’s speaking by Hosheaʽ was in the time of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 And Jehovah said to Hosheaʽ “Go take an illegitimate wife and illegitimate children, because the country is prostituting itself to desert Jehovah.” 3 And he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim. And she became pregnant and bore him a son; 4 and Jehovah said to him “Name him Jezreʽel, because in a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed at Jezreʽel and will abolish the kingdom of the house of Israel; 5 and on that day I will break Israel’s bow in Jezreʽel Vale.”
6** And she became pregnant again and bore a daughter; and he said to him “Name her Lo-Ruhamah, because I will no longer continue to have tenderness for the house of Israel, but will hate them outright. 7* But for the house of Judah I will have tenderness, and will save them by their God Jehovah, and will not save them by bow and sword and war, by ponies and horses.”
8 And she weaned Lo-Ruhamah, and became pregnant and bore a son; 9** and he said “Name him Lo-ʽAmmi, because you are not my people and I am not your God.”
10 2:1 And the number of the sons of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, immeasurable and innumerable; and in the place where they were told “you are not my people” they shall be called “sons of living Deity.” 11** 2:2 And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel together shall gather and elect one head and come up from the country, because great is the day of Jezreʽel.