World English Bible
Hosea 1:8
“Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.”
Verse in context — Hosea 1
She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.
Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.
About Hosea
God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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