Hosea 3

1 The LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

Potem mi je Gospod rekel: »Pojdi že, ljubi žensko, ljubljeno od njenega prijatelja, vendar zakonolomko, glede na Gospodovo ljubezen do Izraelovih otrok, ki gledajo k drugim bogovom in ljubijo flaškone vina.«

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

Tako sem si jo kupil za petnajst koščkov srebra in za tovor ječmena in pol tovora ječmena.

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 towards you.”

Rekel sem ji: »Mnogo dni boš čakala name. Ne boš igrala pocestnice in ne boš za drugega moškega; tako bom tudi jaz nate.«

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

Kajti Izraelovi otroci bodo mnogo dni ostali brez kralja, brez princa, brez klavne daritve, brez podobe, brez efóda in brez družinskega malika.

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

Potem se bodo Izraelovi otroci vrnili in iskali Gospoda, svojega Boga in Davida, svojega kralja in bali se bodo Gospoda in njegove dobrote v zadnjih dneh.