Hosea - Chapter 3 | Good News Translation

  • 1. The LORD said to me, "Go again and show your love for a woman who is committing adultery with a lover. You must love her just as I still love the people of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and like to take offerings of raisins to idols."
  • 2. So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and seven bushels of barley to buy her.
  • 3. I told her that for a long time she would have to wait for me without being a prostitute or committing adultery; and during this time I would wait for her.
  • 4. In just this way the people of Israel will have to live for a long time without kings or leaders, without sacrifices or sacred stone pillars, without idols or images to use for divination.
  • 5. But the time will come when the people of Israel will once again turn to the LORD their God and to a descendant of David their king. Then they will fear the LORD and will receive his good gifts.
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