Hosea Chapter 1    

¹The 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.
 

²When Yahweh began to speak with Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”
 

³So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son.
  ⁴Yahweh 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.
  ⁵It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”
 

⁶She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel that I should at all forgive them.
  ⁷But I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, but will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
 

⁸Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
  ⁹He said, “Call his name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people and I will not be your God.
  ¹⁰Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea that cannot be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  ¹¹The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will flourish in the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.”