Lexicon :: Strong's H3808 - lō'

She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to him:

Name her Lo-ruhamah,[fn]

for I will no longer have compassion

on the house of Israel.

I will certainly take them away.

Then the LORD said:

Name him Lo-ammi,[fn]

for you are not my people,

and I will not be your God.[fn]

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.

For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.

Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face

and her adultery from between her breasts.

I will have no compassion on her children

because they are the children of promiscuity.

Therefore, this is what I will do:

I will block her[fn] way with thorns;

I will enclose her with a wall,

so that she cannot find her paths.

Now I will expose her shame

in the sight of her lovers,

and no one will rescue her from my power.

In that day —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

you will call me “my husband”

and no longer call me “my Baal.”[fn]

I will sow her[fn] in the land for myself,

and I will have compassion

on Lo-ruhamah;

I will say to Lo-ammi:

You are my people,

and he will say, “You are my God.”

I said to her, “You are to live with me many days. You must not be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you.”

They will eat but not be satisfied;

they will be promiscuous but not multiply.

For they have abandoned their devotion to the LORD.

I will not punish your daughters

when they act promiscuously

or your daughters-in-law

when they commit adultery,

for the men themselves go off with prostitutes

and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.

People without discernment are doomed.

I know Ephraim,

and Israel is not hidden from me.

For now, Ephraim,

you have acted promiscuously;

Israel is defiled.

They go with their flocks and herds

to seek the LORD

but do not find him;

he has withdrawn from them.

When Ephraim saw his sickness

and Judah his wound,

Ephraim went to Assyria

and sent a delegation to the great king.[fn]

But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

For I desire faithful love and not sacrifice,

the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Foreigners consume his strength,

but he does not notice.

Even his hair is streaked with gray,

but he does not notice.

They do not cry to me from their hearts;

rather, they wail on their beds.

They slash themselves[fn] for grain and new wine;

they turn away from me.

They turn, but not to what is above;[fn]

they are like a faulty bow.

Their leaders will fall by the sword

because of their insolent tongue.

They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.

They have installed kings,

but not through me.

They have appointed leaders,

but without my approval.

They make their silver and gold

into idols for themselves

for their own destruction.[fn]

Though they offer sacrificial gifts[fn]

and eat the flesh,

the LORD does not accept them.

Now he will remember their guilt

and punish their sins;

they will return to Egypt.

Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them,

and the new wine will fail them.

All their evil appears at Gilgal,

for there I began to hate them.

I will drive them from my house

because of their evil, wicked actions.

I will no longer love them;

all their leaders are rebellious.

My God will reject them

because they have not listened to him;

they will become wanderers among the nations.

In fact, they are now saying,

“We have no king!

For we do not fear the LORD.

What can a king do for us? ”

Israel, you have sinned

since the days of Gibeah;

they have taken their stand there.

Will not war against the unjust

overtake them in Gibeah?

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,

taking them[fn] by the hand,[fn]

but they never knew that I healed them.

Israel will not return to the land of Egypt

and Assyria will be his king,

because they refused to repent.

My people are bent on turning from me.

Though they call to him on high,

he will not exalt them at all.

I will not vent the full fury of my anger;

I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim.

For I am God and not man,

the Holy One among you;

I will not come in rage.[fn]

But Ephraim thinks,

“How rich I have become;

I made it all myself.

In all my earnings,

no one can find any iniquity in me

that I can be punished for! ”[fn]

I have been the LORD your God

ever since[fn] the land of Egypt;

you know no God but me,

and no Savior exists besides me.

Labor pains come on him.

He is not a wise son;

when the time comes,

he will not be born.[fn]

“Assyria will not save us,

we will not ride on horses,

and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods! ’

to the work of our hands.

For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”