1 The LORD said to me again, "Go, love a woman loved by a companion and committing adultery, as the LORD loves the children of Israel, while they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."
2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley and a lethech of barley.
3 Then I told her, "Many days you are to remain for me; you must not play the harlot or be with any man, and I too will be the same toward you."
4 For many days the children of Israel will remain with no king and no prince, no sacrifice and no pillar, no ephod and no teraphim.
5 After that the children of Israel will turn back and seek the LORD their God and David their king; they will come trembling to the LORD and to his goodness at the end of the days.