Hosea 3

NSB(i) 1 Jehovah said to me: »Go again and love a woman beloved by her friend. Love an adulteress, even as Jehovah loves the children of Israel. Though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins for feasts.« 2 So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley. 3 I said to her: »You will live with me many days. You must not play the harlot (commit fornication) and you must not be any man’s wife. I will also be with you.« 4 For the children of Israel will live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim. 5 Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God. David their king will come with trembling to Jehovah and to his goodness in the last days.