Old Testament · Hosea

Hosea 3

Hosea Redeems His Wife

(Zechariah 2:6–13)

1And the LORD said to me: "Go yet again, love a woman^a beloved of a friend and an adulteress, like the love of the LORD for the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."

2And I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley and a lethech of barley. 3And I said to her: "Many days you shall remain for me; you shall not play the harlot, and you shall not be to a man^b; and also I will be toward you."

4For many days the sons of Israel shall remain without king and without prince, and without sacrifice and without pillar, and without ephod and teraphim. 5Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king, and they shall come trembling to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.