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Then she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said to him:

“Name her Lo-ruhamah[a]
    for no longer will I have compassion on the house of Israel
    that I should ever pardon them.
But on the house of Judah I will have compassion
    and deliver them by Adonai, their God,
    yet not by bow, sword or battle,
        nor by horses and horsemen.”

After she weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:6 Meaning, Shown no compassion.

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

After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah,(F) Gomer had another son.

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