Hosea’s Second Symbolic Marriage
1 Then the Lordsaid to me, “Go again, love a womanwhois loved byherhusband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lordloves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
2 So I bought her for myself for fifteenshekelsof silver and a homer and a half of barley.
3 Then I said to her, “You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you.”
4 For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice orsacredpillar and without ephod or household idols.
5 Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lordtheir God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lordand to His goodness in the last days.
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