Chapter 3

The Prophet is commanded again to love an adultress: ℣.3 whom he maketh long to expect her husband: to signify God's love to the Synagogue: ℣.4 and the Jews state in the new testament: ℣.5 Who at last shall be converted to Christ.

1. 1

   And our Lord said to me: Yet again go, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress; as our Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they have respect to strange gods, and love the kernels of grapes.

2. 2

   And I digged her unto me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

3. 3

   And I said to her: Thou shalt expect me many days: thou shalt not fornicate, and thou shalt be no man's: but I also will expect thee.

4. 4

   Because many days shall the children of Israel sit without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

5. 5

   And after this the children of Israel shall return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king: and they shall dread at the Lord, and at his goodness in the last days.