Hosea 3
1AGAIN the Lord said to me, Still go and love a woman who loveth wickedness, even an adulteress, as God loveth the children of Israel, though they look to strange gods and love cakes with dried grapes.
2So I hired one for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a gomar of barley and a nebel of wine,
3and said to her, Thou shalt continue many days for me and shalt not play the harlot nor have commerce with man, then I will be for thee.
4For the children of Israel shall continue many days without a king and without a chief, and without a sacrifice and without an altar and without a priesthood, and without manifestations,
5and afterwards the children of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and will be amazed at the Lord and at His goodness in the last days.