will

And the LORD said vnto him, Call his name Iezreel; for yet a little while, and I will auenge the blood of Iezreel vpon the house of Iehu, and will cause to cease the kingdome of the house of Israel.

1611 marginal noteHeb. visit.

And it shall come to passe at that day, that I will breake the bow of Israel in the valley of Iezreel.

¶ And shee conceiued againe and bare a daughter, and God sayd vnto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more haue mercy vpon the house of Israel: but I will vtterly take them away.

1611 marginal noteThat is, not hauing obtained mercie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. I will not adde any more to.

1611 marginal noteOr, that I should altogether pardon them.

But I will haue mercy vpon the house of Iudah, and will saue them by the LORD their God, and will not saue them by vow, nor by sword, nor by battell, by horses nor by horsemen.

Then sayde God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for yee are not my people, and I will not be your God.

1611 marginal noteThat is, not my people.

And I will not haue mercy vpon her children, for they be the children of whordomes.

For their mother hath played the harlot: shee that conceiued them hath done shamefully: for shee sayd, I will goe after my louers, that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle, and my drinke.

1611 marginal noteHeb. drinks

¶ Therefore behold, I will hedge vp thy way with thornes, and make a wall, that she shall not find her pathes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. wall a wall.

And she shall follow after her louers, but she shall not ouertake them, and she shall seeke them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband, for then was it better with me then now.

Therefore will I returne, and take away my Corne in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and wil recouer my wooll and my flaxe giuen to couer her nakednesse.

1611 marginal noteOr, take away.