Hos 3
1
And the LORD said unto me: 'Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress,
even as the LORD loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods,
and love cakes of raisins.
2
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer
of barley;
3
and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play
the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.'
4
For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without
prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim;
5
afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David
their king; and shall come trembling unto the LORD and to His goodness in the end
of days.