Call his name Lo-ammi – that is, "not My people." The name of this third child expresses the last final degree of chastisement. As the "scat…

Closes the chapter in the Hebrew text. The episode described above is, in some particulars, the model for Ezekiel 16:1 and following. Gomer’s child…

The weaning the Prophet mentions here is by some understood allegorically, as if he said that the people would for a time be deprived of p…

Then said God, call his name Loammi
Which Aben Ezra interprets of the children of the ten tribes born in captivity, w…

The rejection of Israel for a time is signified by the name of another child: call him Lo-ammi, not my people. The Lord disowns all relati…