Hosea Redeems his Wife
1 The Lord said to me, “Go back, love a woman loved by another and an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the raisin cakes of idol worship.”
2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley. 3 I said to her, “Stay with me for many days. Do not play the prostitute and do not be with any other man. So I will also do for you.”
4 For the Israelites shall live many days without king or prince and without sacrifice and without sacred stone and without ephod or idols. 5 Afterward the Israelites shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king and shall come with trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.