HO-3:1  Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved

of [her]

friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD

toward the

children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of

wine.

HO-3:2  So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver,

and [for] an

homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

HO-3:3  And I said unto 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.

HO-3:4  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:

HO-3:5  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.

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