She conceived yet again, and bare a daughter, and God said unto him, Call her name [a]Lo-Ruhamah: for I will no more have pity upon the house of Israel: but I will utterly [b]take them away.

Yet I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will [c]save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:6 That is, not obtaining mercy: whereby he signifieth, that God’s favor was departed from them.
  2. Hosea 1:6 For the Israelites never returned after that they were taken captives by the Assyrians.
  3. Hosea 1:7 For after their captivity he restored him miraculously by the means of Cyrus, Ezra 1:1.

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