Hosea 3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Hosea 3Further Assurances of God’s Redeeming Love

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3And I said to her, “You must remain as mine for many days; you shall not prostitute yourself; you shall not have intercourse with a man, nor I with you.”

4Ex 28.6; Judg 17.5; Hos 13.10, 11; Zech 10.2For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

5Jer 31.9; 50.4, 5; Ezek 34.23, 24; Mic 4.1Afterward the Israelites shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; they shall come in awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.