Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Now, when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah - said to complete the symbolical picture, not having any special signification as to Israel (Henderson). Or it may imply that Israel was bereft of all the privileges which were as needful to them as milk is to infants (cf. Psalms 131:2, "I have ... quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother;" 1 Peter 2:2). (Vatablus.) Israel was not suddenly, but gradually cast off; God bore with them with long-suffering, until they were incurable (Calvin). But as it is not God, but Gomer who weans Lo-ruhamah, the weaning may imply the lust of Gomer, who has hardly weaned when she is again pregnant (Manger). But Oriental women do not wean their children until they are two or even three years old. Therefore I prefer considering this period as marking an interval between the two stages of punishment of Israel.