¹ And Jehovah said to^▵ me, Go yet again^*, love a woman, loved by her companion and committing·​·adultery, as the love of Jehovah for the sons of Israel, they^◦ who turn· their ·faces to^▵ other gods, and love flagons of wine from grapes.

² And I procured her to me with fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a lethek^* of barley;

³ and I said to^▵ her, Thou shalt dwell for me many days; thou shalt not commit·​·harlotry, and thou shalt not be for another man^◦; and I^◦ will also be for^◦ thee.

⁴ For the sons of Israel shall dwell many days, without^▵ king, and without^▵ prince, and without^▵ sacrifice, and without^▵ statue, and without^▵ ephod or^◦ teraphim;

⁵ afterwards shall the sons of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king; and shall dread Jehovah and His goodness in the later days.

²⁸ On·​·account·​·of this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above blacken, because^◦ I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn·​·back from it.