6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, ^j“Call her name No Mercy,¹ for ^kI will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. 7 But ^lI will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I ^mwill 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, ⁿ“Call his name Not My People,² for ^oyou are not my people, and I am not your God.”³

10 ⁴ Yet ^pthe number of the children of Israel shall be ^qlike the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. ^rAnd ^sin the place where it was said to them, ^o“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, ^t“Children⁵ of ^uthe living God.”