Hosea - Chapter 3

Passage

And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loves the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes. And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley. And I said to her: You shall wait for me many days: you shall not play the harlot, and you shall be no one's, and I also will wait for you. For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim. And after this the children of Israel shall return and shall seek the Lord, their God, and David, their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness, in the last days.