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CHAP. III.

1 By the expiation of an adulteresse, 4 is shewed the desolation of Israel before their restauration.

¹ Then said the Lord vnto me, Goe yet, loue a woman (beloued of her friend, yet an adulteresse) according to the loue of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who looke to other gods, and loue flagons of wine.¹

² So I bought her to me for fifteene pieces of siluer, and for an homer of barley and an halfe homer of barley.²

³ And I said vnto her, Thou shalt abide for me many dayes, thou shalt not play the harlot, & thou shalt not be for an other man, so will I also be for thee.³

⁴ For the children of Israel shall abide many dayes without a King, and without a Prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an Ephod, and without Teraphim.⁴

⁵ Afterward shall the children of Israel returne, and seeke the Lord their God, and Dauid their King, and shall feare the Lord, and his goodnesse in the latter dayes.⁵

Hosea Chapter 3 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):

¹ Heb. of grapes.
² Heb. lethech.
³ Deut.21. 3.
⁴ Heb. a standing or statue.
⁵ Ier.30. 9. ezech. 34.23. , Isai.2.1.

* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania