Hosea 2:1
“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
BSB
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ASV
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
KJV
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru–hamah.
Hosea 2:1
“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
BSB
ASV
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
KJV
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru–hamah.
"Tell your brothers and sisters, my people, that they have attained mercy." LXX: "Say to your brother, my people, and to your sister, having obtained mercy." Because the day of Jezrael is great, on which Judas and Israel will have one prince, and it will not be said of Israel, "you are not my people," but on the contrary they will be called the children of the living God.
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi - that is, “My people, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,” i. e., “beloved or tenderly pitied.” The words form a climax of the love of God. First, the people scattered , unpitied , and disowned by God , is re-born of God; then it is declared to be in continued relation to God, “My people;” then to be the object of his yearning love.
Say . . . unto . . . brethren, Ammi, &c.--that is, When the prediction (Ho 1:11) shall be accomplished, then ye will call one another, as brothers and sisters in the family of God, Ammi and Ruhamah.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Hosea 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they…
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As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They…
Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
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1 Peter 2:10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they…
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
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Ezekiel 37:27My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will…
