6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Call her name No Mercy,¹ for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. ^kI will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”

8 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. 9 And the Lord said, “Call his name Not My People,² for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”³

10 ^{4 l}Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be ^mlike the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. ⁿAnd in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, ^o“Children⁵ of the living God.”