Hosea brings back the wife who had proved unfaithful
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📚Then the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by a friend, but an adulteress 📖. Show her love just like the love of the LORD for the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love their raisin cakes 📖”. 2 📚So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels 📖 of silver, and for a homer and a half 📖 of barley. 3 📚And I said to her, “You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not engage in prostitution, and you shall not be for another man; so I will also be for you”.
4 📚For the children of Israel will remain many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod 📖, and without teraphim 📖.
3:4 God would remove them from the land of Israel and bring them under foreign rule. They would not be able to worship as they had been doing.⚜
5 📚Afterward the children of Israel will return, and seek the LORD their God, and David 📖 their king, and will show reverence for the LORD and his goodness in the latter days 📖.