He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi{Lo-Ammi means "not my people"}; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
"Hosea 1:2-9 functions as a summarizing preface to the entire book. It presents an overview, in stark and moving terms, of the prophet’s proportionately dominant message: God has given up his people. The theme of restoration after this judgment then follows immediately in Hosea 2:1-3 [in the Hebrew Bible, Hosea 1:10 to Hosea 2:1 in the English versions]." [Note: Stuart, p. 35.] 