Hosea 2:23

And I will sow her unto me in the earth Rather, in the land. Jehovah declares that Jezreel shall verify her name (hername, for Jezreel means restored Israel) by being sown anew in the promised land. (Similarly Jeremiah, see Jeremiah 31:27-28). Thus one of the symbolic names of chap. 1 is not indeed changed, but transformed by interpretation. The other names are absolutely reversed. -Unto me", because while they were outside -Jehovah's land", the relations of Jehovah to Israel seemed interrupted.

I will have mercy upon.…] Rather, I will compassionate Uncompassionated [Lo-ruhamah], and to Not-my-people [Lo-ammi] I will say, Thou art My-people [Ammi]; and he (viz. Not-my-people) shall say, My God! St Paul's quotation in Romans 9:25 (in a form which differs both from the Hebrew and from the Septuagint) has been already referred to in illustration of a critical hypothesis (see on Hosea 1:10-11). A post-exile prophecy also contains an unmistakable allusion to this passage (Zechariah 13:9, end). Applications like these shew how great was the posthumousinfluence of the prophets.