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.
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Gill's Exposition
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter,.... One of the weaker sex; denoting the weaker state of the kingdom of Israel after Jeroboam, as Kimchi thinks; Zachariah his son reigning but six months,…
Barnes' Notes
Call her name Lo-ruhamah - The name is rendered in Paul “not beloved” Rom 9:25, in Peter, “hath not obtained mercy” 1Pe 2:10. Love and mercy are both contained in the full meaning of the intensive…
These words, The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea, may refer either, 1. To that glorious set of prophets which was raised up about this time. About this time there lived and prophesied Joel,…
Cambridge Bible
bare a daughter The nation being personified sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman.
Lo-ruhamah i.e., Uncompassionated.
but I will utterly take them away Rather, that I should forgive them.
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