Hosea 2:1

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Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because they disobeyed,

So since by the mercy of God I am engaged in this service, I never lose heart.

though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief,

you who were once "no people" but are now "God's people"; once "unpitied" but now "pitied indeed."