YAHWEH1 said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as YAHWEH loves Bani-Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley. 3I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
4For Bani-Israel shall remain many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. 5Afterward Bani-Israel shall return, and seek YAHWEH their God2, and Dawud their king, and shall come with trembling to YAHWEH and to his blessings in the last days.
- 3:1 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎
- 3:5 God, English translation of elohim. Elohim (Hebrew) is related to allah (Arabic) and alaha (Syriac), all of which translate as “God,” and refer to the one true God. ↩︎