Chapter 3 Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her
friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children
of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley,
and a half-homer of barley.
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days.
Thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not pay for another man.
So will I also be for thee.
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a
prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an
ephod, and without teraphim.
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God,
and David their king, and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.