Hosea 1:9

Yahweh said “Give him the name Lo-ammi, which means 'not my people', because the people of Israel are no longer my people, and I am not their God.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

In Context

8After Gomer had ◄weaned/stopped breast-feeding► Lo-ruhamah, she became pregnant again, and she gave birth to another son.

10But some day the people of Israel will be as numerous as [SIM] the grains of sand on the seashore; no one will be able to count them. Now I am saying to them, ‘You are not my people,’ but then people will say to them, ‘ You are the children of God who is all-powerful.’

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Matthew Henry on Hosea 1:9-11

Temporary Rejection of Israel; Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 768.) 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. 9 Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 11 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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