Hosea 1:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² At the beginning, the LORD spoke by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea: “Go. Take to you a wife of fornications, and children of fornications. For the land has committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.”

³ So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, who conceived and bore him a son.

⁴ And the LORD said to him: “Call his name Jezreel. For in a little while, I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the House of Jehu and will make the kingdom of the House of Israel cease.