3
1 The
LORD said to me,
“Go again, love
a woman loved by
another, and an
adulteress, even
as the LORD loves
the children of
Israel, though they
turn to other gods,
and love cakes of raisins.”
2 So I
bought her for myself
for fifteen pieces
of silver and
a homer
and a half
of barley.
3 I said
to her, “You
shall stay with
me many days.
You shall not
play the
prostitute, and
you shall not
be with any other
man. I will also
be so toward you.”
4 For
the children of
Israel shall live
many days without
king, without
prince, without
sacrifice, without sacred stone,
and without ephod
or idols.
5 Afterward the
children of Israel
shall return and
seek the LORD
their God, and
David their king,
and shall come
with trembling to
the LORD and
to his blessings
in the last days.