Then the Lord said:

Name him Lo-ammi,[a]
for you are not my people,
and I will not be your God.[b](A)
10 Yet the number of the Israelites
will be like the sand of the sea,(B)
which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told:
You are not my people,
they will be called: Sons of the living God.(C)
11 And the Judeans and the Israelites
will be gathered together.(D)
They will appoint for themselves a single ruler(E)
and go up from[c] the land.
For the day of Jezreel(F) will be great.

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  1. 1:9 = Not My People
  2. 1:9 Lit not be yours
  3. 1:11 Or and flourish in; Hb obscure

Then the Lord said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.[a](A)

10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted.(B) In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’(C) 11 The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together;(D) they will appoint one leader(E) and will come up out of the land,(F) for great will be the day of Jezreel.[b](G)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:9 Or your I am
  2. Hosea 1:11 In Hebrew texts 1:10,11 is numbered 2:1,2.