³The Lord said to me again, “Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”^* ²So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a measure of wine.^r^* ³And I said to her, “You must remain as mine for many days; you shall not prostitute yourself; you shall not have intercourse with a man, nor I with you.” ⁴For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.^* ⁵Afterward the Israelites shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; they shall come in awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.^*

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Footnotes

rGk: Heb a homer of barley and a lethek of barley

Cross references

*2 Sam 6:19; 1 Chr 16:3; Hos 1:2
*Ruth 4:10
*Ex 28:6; Judg 17:5; Hos 13:10, 11; Zech 10:2
*Jer 31:9; 50:4, 5; Ezek 34:23, 24; Mic 4:1