3The Lord said to me, “Go again^h and show your love for a woman who is committing adultery with a lover. You must love her just as I still love the people of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and like to take offerings of raisins to idols.”ⁱ

²So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and 150 kilogrammes of barley to buy her. ³I told her that for a long time she would have to wait for me without being a prostitute or committing adultery; and during this time I would wait for her.

⁴In just this way the people of Israel will have to live for a long time without kings or leaders, without sacrifices or sacred stone pillars, without idols or images to use for divination. ⁵But the time will come when the people of Israel will once again turn to the Lord their God, and to a descendant of David their king. Then they will fear the Lord and will receive his good gifts.

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Footnotes

hThe Lord … again; or The Lord spoke to me again. He said, “Go … “
iofferings of raisins to idols: Dried grapes were used in the worship of fertility gods, who were believed to give abundant harvests to their worshippers.