And the Lord said, (A)“Call his name Not My People,[a] for (B)you are not my people, and I am not your God.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:9 Hebrew Lo-ammi, which means not my people
  2. Hosea 1:9 Hebrew I am not yours

Israel's Unfaithfulness Punished

[a] Say to your brothers, (A)“You are my people,”[b] and to your sisters, (B)“You have received mercy.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:1 Ch 2:3 in Hebrew
  2. Hosea 2:1 Hebrew ammi, which means my people
  3. Hosea 2:1 Hebrew ruhama, which means she has received mercy

23     and (A)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And (B)I (C)will have mercy on No Mercy,[a]
    and (D)I will say to Not My People,[b] (E)‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ruhama
  2. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ammi

25 As indeed he says in Hosea,

(A)“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”

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10 (A)Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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