¹Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a ¹woman who is loved by her ²husband, yet an adulteress, even ^aas the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin ^bcakes.”

²So I ^abought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a ¹half of barley.

³Then I said to her, “You shall ^astay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a ¹man; so I will also be toward you.”

⁴For the sons of Israel will remain for many days ^awithout king or prince, ^bwithout sacrifice or sacred ^cpillar and without ^dephod or ¹^ehousehold idols.

⁵Afterward the sons of Israel will ^areturn and seek the Lord their God and ^bDavid their king; and ^cthey will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

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Footnotes

1I.e. Gomer
2Lit companion
1Heb lethech
1Or husband
1Heb teraphim

Cross references

a Jer 3:20
b 2 Sam 6:19; 1 Chr 16:3; Song 2:5
a Ruth 4:10
a Deut 21:13
a Hos 10:3; 13:10, 11
b Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; Hos 2:11
c Hos 10:1, 2
d Ex 28:4–12; 1 Sam 23:9–12
e Gen 31:19, 34; Judg 17:5; 18:14, 17; 1 Sam 15:23
a Jer 50:4, 5
b Jer 30:9; Ezek 34:24
c Is 2:2, 3; Jer 31:9