¹The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel.

²The beginning of Yahweh's speaking through Hosea: Yahweh said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms, for the land does nothing but prostitute itself, away from following Yahweh.

³He went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son.

⁴Yahweh said to him, Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while and I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

⁵And it will be on that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

⁶She conceived again and bore a daughter. And he said to him, Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will not again have compassion on the house of Israel, but I will surely take them away.

⁷But on the house of Judah I will have compassion, and I will save them by Yahweh their God; and I will not save them by bow, by sword, by war, by horses, or by horsemen.

⁸She weaned Lo-Ruhamah, and conceived and bore a son.

⁹He said, Call his name Lo-Ammi, for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

¹⁰And the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which will not be measured and will not be counted. And it will be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, Children of the living God.

¹¹The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will set one head over themselves, and they will go up from the land, for great is the day of Jezreel.