H3808–לֹא–lo

He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

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.'

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, Neither am I her husband; And let her put away her prostitution from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts;

לֹ֣א lo' “not”לֹ֣א lo' “not”

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; For they are children of unfaithfulness;

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can't find her way.

לֹ֥א lo' “not”

She will follow after her lovers, But she won't overtake them; And she will seek them, But won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; For then was it better with me than now.'

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one will deliver her out of my hand.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "That you will call me 'my husband,' And no longer call me 'my master.'

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, And they will no more be mentioned by their name.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

I will sow her to me in the earth; And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; And I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' And they will say, 'My God!'"

לֹ֣א lo' “Lo-”לְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “Not-”

I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."

לֹ֣א lo' “not”וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; Because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; Because the men consort with prostitutes, And they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; And the people that does not understand will come to ruin.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”לֹֽא־ lo'- “[which] not”

I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

לֹֽא־ lo'- “not”

Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is within them, And they don't know Yahweh.

לֹ֤א lo' “not”לֹ֥א lo' “not”

They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; But they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, And sent to king Jareb: But he is not able to heal you, Neither will he cure you of your wound.

לֹ֤א lo' “not”וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

וְלֹא־ (לֹא) lo'- “not”

Strangers have devoured his strength, And he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, And he doesn't realize it.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”לֹ֥א lo' “not”

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, Nor sought him, for all this.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”וְלֹ֥א (לֹ֥א) Lo' “not”

They haven't cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

וְלֹֽא־ (לֹֽא) lo'- “not”

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

לֹ֣א lo' “not”

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, That they may be cut off.

וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”וְלֹ֣א (לֹ֣א) Lo' “not”

Let Samaria throw out his calf-idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be before the are capable of purity?

לֹ֥א lo' “not”