Lo-Ruhama

So Messiah asks the father, how long? Remember the laments we talked about? You'll have no compassion.

Back in the book of Hosea, if you remember that, he names one of his children Lo-Ruhamah, no compassion, because that's how God's attitude was towards them because of their failures.

But later on, he said, but I will have Ruhamah.

I will have compassion on you when you're obedient.

And I will sow him for myself in the land.

And I will have pity on Lo-Ruhamah.

And I will say to Lo-Ammai, You are my people.

And he shall say, You are my God.

And the Lord said to him, She conceived again and bore a daughter.

Then the Lord said to him, Name her Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel or forgive them, but I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God.

I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.

When she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

Then the Lord said, Name him Lo-Ammai, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered.