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Chapter 2

[a]The number of the Israelites
    will be like the sand of the sea,
    which can be neither measured nor counted.(A)
Instead of being told,
    “You are Not-My-People,”
They will be called,
    “Children of the living God.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:1–3 These verses abruptly reverse the tone of the judgments of 1:2–9 with words of hope for the covenant people: the name Jezreel is given a positive interpretation in contrast to its negative meaning in 1:4; the child named “Not-Pitied” in 1:6 is renamed “Pitied” in 2:3; the child named “Not-My-People” is renamed “My People.” The reversal of these names occurs again in 2:25.

[a]“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:1 In Hebrew texts 2:1-23 is numbered 2:3-25.

27 (A)And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the Israelites were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved; 28 for decisively and quickly will the Lord execute sentence upon the earth.”

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27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(A)
    only the remnant will be saved.(B)
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:28 Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)