- The word of the LORD that came to Hosea 
      son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings 
      of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel:
 
    - When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, 
      the LORD said to him, "Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and 
      children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery 
      in departing from the LORD."
 
    - So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, 
      and she conceived and bore him a son.
 
    - Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Call 
      him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre 
      at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
 
    - In that day I will break Israel's bow in 
      the Valley of Jezreel."
 
    - Gomer conceived again and gave birth to 
      a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Call her Lo-Ruhamah, for 
      I will no longer show love to the house of Israel, that I should at all 
      forgive them.
 
    - Yet I will show love to the house of Judah; 
      and I will save them -- not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, 
      but by the LORD their God."
 
    - After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer 
      had another son.
 
    - Then the LORD said, "Call him Lo-Ammi, 
      for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
 
    - "Yet the Israelites will be like the 
      sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place 
      where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 
      'sons of the living God.'
 
    - The people of Judah and the people of Israel 
      will be reunited, and they will appoint one leader and will come up out 
      of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel. 
        
  
 
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