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and in Jezreel Valley I will break the power of Israel.”

Later, Gomer had a daughter, and the Lord said, “Name her Lo-Ruhamah,[a] because I will no longer have mercy and forgive Israel. But I am the Lord God of Judah, and I will have mercy and save Judah by my own power—not by wars and arrows or swords and cavalry.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1.6 Lo-Ruhamah: In Hebrew “Lo-Ruhamah” means “No Mercy.”

In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.(A)

Gomer(B) conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”),(C) for I will no longer show love to Israel,(D) that I should at all forgive them. Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow,(E) sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the Lord their God,(F) will save them.”

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