Hos 1
1
The word of YHWH 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.
2
When YHWH spoke at the first by Hosea, YHWH said to Hosea, Go, take to you a wife
of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land does commit great whoredom, [departing]
from YHWH.
3
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him
a son.
4
And YHWH said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge
the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house
of Israel to cease.
5
And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the
valley of Jezreel.
6
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [YHWH] said to him, Call her name
Behold-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should
in any wise pardon them.
7
But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by YHWH their God,
and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
8
Now when she had weaned Behold-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
9
And [YHWH] said, Call his name Behold-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will
not be your [God].
10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot
be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was
said to them, You are not my people, it shall be said to them, [You are] the sons
of the living God.
11
And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and
they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land; for great shall
be the day of Jezreel.