⁶ For in Scripture it says:

Hosea’s Reconciliation With His Wife

3 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress.^(A) Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.^(B)”

² So I bought her for fifteen shekels^[a] of silver and about a homer and a lethek^[b] of barley. ³ Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”

⁴ For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince,^(C) without sacrifice^(D) or sacred stones,^(E) without ephod^(F) or household gods.^{(G) 5} Afterward the Israelites will return and seek^(H) the Lord their God and David their king.^(I) They will come trembling^(J) to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.^(K)

⁶⁰ Yet I will remember the covenant^(A) I made with you in the days of your youth,^(B) and I will establish an everlasting covenant^(C) with you. ⁶¹ Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed^(D) when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters,^(E) but not on the basis of my covenant with you. ⁶² So I will establish my covenant^(F) with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.^{(G) 63} Then, when I make atonement^(H) for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed^(I) and never again open your mouth^(J) because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(K)’”