Hosea 1:6
Gomer conceived again and bore a daughter. Then Yahweh said to Hosea, 1 “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, 1 for I will no longer have mercy 1 on the house of Israel, 1 that I should forgive them at all. 1
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5It will happen on the day 1 that I break the bow of Israel 1 in the Valley of Jezreel.”
Cross References
2 Kings 17:20So Yahweh rejected all the descendants of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hand of those who would take the possession as spoil, until he had cast them out of his sight.
Isaiah 27:11When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, 1 for this is not a people of understanding. 1 Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and he who made them will not be merciful to them. 1
Hosea 2:23I will plant her for myself in the land, 1 and I will have mercy on Lo-Ruhamah. 1 I will say to Lo-Ammi, 1 'You are Ammi Attah,' 1 and they will say to me, 'You are my God.'”
Amos 7:8Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Look, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel. I will spare them no longer. 1
1 Peter 2:10Once you were not a people, 1 but now you are the people of God. 1 You did not receive mercy, 1 but now you have received mercy.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 1:3-8
The Prophet's Marriage; Threatenings against Israel; Intimation of Mercy to Judah. ( b. c. 768.) 2 The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord . 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. 4 And the Lord said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel… Read the whole commentary →