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. |
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2: So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an
homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |