Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Hosea 2:4 in English Standard Version "Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom." Ho 1:2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” Ho 1:6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.