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[The situation is not hopeless; God wants to reunite his people. Verse 11 now mentions that the day of Jezreel will be great. In the next verse (Hos. 2:1), Hosea's youngest son Ammi and his daughter Ruhama are mentioned without the Hebrew negative particle lo before their names!] Even though the number of Israel's sons will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted [Gen. 22:17; 32:12], it will happen that instead of what was said to them, "you are not my people," it will be said to them, "you are the sons of the living God (Hebr. El)."
