Study Desk

The Lord said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress.^(a) Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.^(b)"

So I bought her for fifteen shekels^[a] of silver and about a homer and a lethek^[b] of barley.

Then I told her, "You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you."

For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince,^(c) without sacrifice^(d) or sacred stones,^(e) without ephod^(f) or household gods.^(g)

Afterward the Israelites will return and seek^(h) the Lord their God and David their king.⁽ⁱ⁾ They will come trembling^(j) to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.^(k)