Hosea 3

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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 ⚑

2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and for an homer of barley and an half homer of barley ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain