Hosea 3

1 YHWH said to me, "Go again, love a woman who loves another, and is an adulteress, even as YHWH loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

And Jehovah saith unto me: 'Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'

2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

3 I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."

and I say unto her, 'Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one's; and I also [am] for thee.'

4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.

5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek YHWH their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to YHWH and to his blessings in the last days.

Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.