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Hosea 1:9

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Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].

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KJV King James Version

Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].

BSB Berean Standard Bible

And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.

WEB World English Bible

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

ASV American Standard Version

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

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

and He saith, ‘Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye are not My people, and I am not for you;

Surrounding context — Hosea 1

6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

9 Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: 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 shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of Jezreel.

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