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The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah,Jotham,Ahaz, and Hezekiah,kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash,king of Israel.
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The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORDsaid to Hosea,Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed greatwhoredom, departing from the LORD.
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And the LORDsaid unto him, Call his nameJezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her nameLoruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
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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.
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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 livingGod.
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Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gatheredtogether, and appoint themselves onehead, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.