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She conceived again and bore a daughter. The Lord said to him: Give her the name “Not-Pitied,”[a] for I will no longer feel pity for the house of Israel: rather, I will utterly abhor them. [b]Yet for the house of Judah I will feel pity; I will save them by the Lord, their God; but I will not save them by bow or sword, by warfare, by horses or horsemen.(A)

After she weaned Not-Pitied, she conceived and bore a son.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6 “Not-Pitied”: in Hebrew lo-ruhama.
  2. 1:7 Probably written by a later editor when the prophecies of Hosea circulated in the south, after the dissolution of the Northern Kingdom had occurred. The second part of the verse emphasizes the power of the Lord, who needs no human agents to fulfill the divine will. It may refer to the deliverance of Jerusalem from the siege of Sennacherib in 701 (2 Kgs 19:35–37).