Hosea 1

1 word LORD which to be to(wards) Hosea son: child Beeri in/on/with day Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah king Judah and in/on/with day Jeroboam son: child Joash king Israel

[I am] Hosea, the son of Beeri. Yahweh gave me these messages [at various times] during the years that Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were the kings of Judah, and Jeroboam the son of Jehoash was the King of Israel.

2 beginning to speak: speak LORD in/on/with Hosea and to say LORD to(wards) Hosea to go: went to take: marry to/for you woman: wife fornication and youth fornication for to fornicate to fornicate [the] land: country/planet from after LORD

When Yahweh first [began to] give messages to me [to tell to the people of Israel], he said to me, “Go and marry a prostitute. But [some of] her children will be born as a result of her having sex with men to whom she is not married. That will illustrate how the people of Israel have turned away from me and worship (idols/other gods).”

3 and to go: went and to take: marry [obj] Gomer daughter Diblaim and to conceive and to beget to/for him son: child

So I married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. She became pregnant and gave birth to my son.

4 and to say LORD to(wards) him to call: call by name his Jezreel for still little and to reckon: punish [obj] blood Jezreel upon house: household Jehu and to cease kingdom house: household Israel

Yahweh said to me, “Give him the name Jezreel, [which means ‘God scatters’], because I will soon punish the descendants [MTY] of [King] Jehu [by scattering them], because he killed many of my people at Jezreel [town]. [Some day] I will end the kingdom of Israel,

5 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and to break [obj] bow Israel in/on/with Valley (of Jezreel) (Valley of) Jezreel

by destroying the power [MTY] of [the army of] Israel in Jezreel Valley.”

6 and to conceive still and to beget daughter and to say to/for him to call: call by name her No Mercy No Mercy for not to add: again still to have compassion [obj] house: household Israel for to lift: forgive to lift: forgive to/for them

[Later] Gomer became pregnant [again], and she gave birth to a daughter. Yahweh said to me “Give her the name Lo-ruhamah, [which means ‘not loved],’ because I will no longer [show that I] love the people [MET] of Israel, and I will not forgive them [for the sins that they have committed].

7 and [obj] house: household Judah to have compassion and to save them in/on/with LORD God their and not to save them in/on/with bow and in/on/with sword and in/on/with battle in/on/with horse and in/on/with horseman

But I will [show that I] love the people [MTY] of Judah [by saving them from their enemies]. However, it will not be by weapons and armies or horses and chariots that I will save them. Instead, it will be by [the power that I], Yahweh their God, [have].”

8 and to wean [obj] No Mercy No Mercy and to conceive and to beget son: child

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

9 and to say to call: call by name his Not My People Not My People for you(m. p.) not people my and I not to be to/for you

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.

10 and to be number son: descendant/people Israel like/as sand [the] sea which not to measure and not to recount and to be in/on/with place which to say to/for them not people my you(m. p.) to say to/for them son: descendant/people God alive

But [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.’

11 and to gather son: descendant/people Judah and son: descendant/people Israel together and to set: appoint to/for them head: leader one and to ascend: rise from [the] land: country/planet for great: large day Jezreel

[At that time], the people of Judah and the people of Israel will unite. They will appoint one leader for all of them, and they will return from the countries [to which they have been (exiled/forced to go)]. That will be a great time; Jezreel [also means ‘God plants’, and it will be as though God will plant them in this country again].”