Hosea 3

¹Then the Lord

²So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.

³And I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you.”

⁴For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

⁵Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord