1 A word of the Lord that came to Hosee the son of Beeri in the days of Kings Ozias and Ioatham and Achaz and Hezekias of Ioudas and in the days of King Ieroboam son of Ioas of Israel.
2 The beginning of the word of the Lord in Hosee. And the Lord said to Hosee, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom, for the land in committing whoredom will commit whoredom from behind the Lord.”
3 And he went and took Gomer daughter of Debelaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4 And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Iezrael, for in yet a little while I will also avenge the blood of Iezrael on the house of Ieou, and I will turn away the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 And it shall be on that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Iezrael.”
6 And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And he said to him, “Call her name Not Pitied, for I will not any longer have pity on the house of Israel, but setting myself in opposition, I will oppose them.
7 But I will have pity on the sons of Ioudas, and I will save them by the Lord, their God, and I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by chariots or by horses or by horsemen.”
8 And she weaned Not Pitied and conceived again and bore a son.
9 And he said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people and I am not your ‘I am.’ ”
10 And the number of the sons of Israel was like the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered, and it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” they too shall be called, “sons of a living god.”
11 And the sons of Ioudas and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall set
up for themselves one realm, and they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Iezrael.
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Posted By: Steve Williams
Tuesday, April 1st 2014 at 7:49PM
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