Lo-ruhamah

God stakes His own covenant love on a broken human marriage. The book's own zig-zag — judgment, a flicker of hope, deeper judgment, the deepest compassion at chapter 11, and a final unconditional healing at chapter 14.

The command God gave a prophet to marry an unfaithful woman, held at full strength on both sides — the three children named as verdicts and reversed, and the price Hosea paid to buy his own wife back.