Hos 3
1
And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and
an adulteress : as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange
gods, and love the husks of the grapes.
2
And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and
for half a core of barley.
3
And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot,
and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.
4
For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and
without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.
5
And after this the children of Israel shall return, and shall seek the Lord their
God, and David their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the last
days.