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Hosea 1 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Hosea’s Wife and Children

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:1 -

The word of [fn]Yahweh 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, king of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 -

When Yahweh first spoke through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, [fn]forsaking Yahweh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:3 - So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - And Yahweh said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will visit the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:5 - “And it will be in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:6 -

Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And [fn]Yahweh said to him, “Name her [fn]Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:7 - “But I will have compassion on the house of Judah and save them by Yahweh their God, and I will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:8 -

Then she weaned Lo-ruhamah. And she conceived and gave birth to a son.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:9 - And [fn]Yahweh said, “Name him [fn]Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not [fn]your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 -

[fn]Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the sand of the sea,

Which cannot be measured or numbered;

And it will be that in the place

Where it is said to them,

“You are not My people,”

It will be said to them,

You are the sons of the living God.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:11 -

And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together,

And they will set for themselves one head,

And they will go up from the land,

For great will be the day of Jezreel.

LSB Footnotes
The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15
Lit from not following after
Lit He
Lit she has not obtained compassion
Lit He
Lit not my people
Lit yours
Ch 2:1 in Heb
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