# Hosea 3 • --- ### 1 Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of 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 of silver, and 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 man: so I also 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 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.