1And Yehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved by her friend, and an adulteress, even as Yehovah loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins. 2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; 3and I said to her, You shall abide for me many days; you shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be any man’s wife: so I will also be toward you. 4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim: 5afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yehovah their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear to Yehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.