And on that day (A)I will break the bow of Israel (B)in the Valley of Jezreel.”

She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, (C)“Call her name No Mercy,[a] for (D)I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. But (E)I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I (F)will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:6 Hebrew Lo-ruhama, which means she has not received mercy

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