3:1 The LORD said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
3:2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley.
3:3 Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will live with you.”
3:4 For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol.
3:5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.
3:1 Then Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman who is loved by her companion yet who is an adulteress, even as Jehovah has loved the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.
3:2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley and a half-homer of barley.
3:3 And I said to her, You will abide for me for many days; you shall not go about as a harlot nor be another man’s; and I will be the same toward you.
3:4 For the children of Israel will abide for many days without king and without prince and without sacrifice and without pillar and without ephod and teraphim.
3:5 Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their King, and they will come with fear to Jehovah and to His goodness in the last days.