1 And theLordsaid unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved ofherfriend and an adulteress, even as theLordloveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteenpiecesof silver, and an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
3 and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man’s wife: so will I also be toward thee.
4 For the children of Israel shall abide 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 theLordtheir God, and David their king; and shall come with fear unto theLordand to his goodness in the latter days.