“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 will say, ‘You are my God.’””
Hosea 2:23
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Connection with Lo-ammi, not my people
Hosea 1:9 named a child Lo-ammi, not my people. Here God reverses that name with the same word, ammi, my people, used for the covenant itself. Just before, He promised, "you will know the LORD" (Hosea 2:20).
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I will call them my people who are not my people
“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,””
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God
“Once 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.”
'I will call them "my people" who are not my people.' Paul quotes Hosea's marriage metaphor — God naming the unnamed, claiming the unclaimed. This is what grace looks like.
“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,””
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