Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
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Gill's Exposition
Then said God, call his name Loammi,.... Which Aben Ezra interprets of the children of the ten tribes horn in captivity, who never returned; but it rather signifies the ten tribes themselves, who were…
Barnes' Notes
Call his name Lo-ammi - that is, “not My people.” The name of this third child expresses the last final degree of chastisement. As the “scattering by God” did not involve the being wholly “unpitied;”…
We have here a prediction,
I. Of the rejection of Israel for a time, which is signified by the name of another child that Hosea had by his adulterous spouse, Hos 1:8, Hos 1:9. And still we must…
The birth of a Son
Lo-ammi i.e. not my people. Observe the climax in the names. -Jezreel" announces the judgement; Lo-ruhamah, the withdrawal of Jehovah's affection; Lo-ammi, the treatment of Israel…