1. Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved by [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD towards the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
2. So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley
3. And I said to her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man so [will] I also [be] for thee.
4. 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
5. 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.