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[Yahweh] said, Call his name Look-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your [God].
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A Broken Covenant
The name "Lo-ammi," meaning "not my people," represents the devastating climax of God's judgment. Commentators explain this as a formal disowning of the covenant relationship. By saying "you are not my people, and I will not be your God," the Lord signaled the withdrawal of the special protection, guidance, and identity He had promised Israel, a direct consequence of their persistent unfaithfulness.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said God, call his name LoammiWhich 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…
