Hosea 3

Israel Will Return to God

3Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by a ^alover ¹and is committing adultery, just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans.”

²So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley. ³And I said to her, “You shall ^bstay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you.”

⁴For the children of Israel shall abide many days ^cwithout king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ^dephod or ^eteraphim. ⁵Afterward the children of Israel shall return and ^fseek the Lord their God and ^gDavid their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the ^hlatter days.