And the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by
another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the
children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes
of raisins.” So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a
homer and a lethech of barley. And I said to her, “You must dwell
as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to
another man; so will I also be to you.” For the children of Israel
shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or
pillar, without ephod or household gods. Afterward the children of
Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their
king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness
in the latter days.
