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On that day I will demolish the bow of Israel
    in the Valley of Jezreel.”

When Gomer conceived again and bore him a daughter, the Lord said to him:

“Give her the name Lo-ruhama,
    for I no longer have compassion for the house of Israel,
    nor do I wish to forgive them.
However, I do have pity on the house of Judah,
    and I will save them by the Lord, their God.
But I will not deliver them by war,
    nor by sword or bow,
    nor by horses or horsemen.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:7 This verse was probably added by a Judean editor in order to exclude Jerusalem from the threat; Jerusalem was, in fact, spared from the Assyrian peril in 701 B.C.