1 En die HERE het vir my gesê: Gaan nog 'n keer, bemin 'n vrou wat bemin word deur haar vriend, maar wat owerspel bedrywe, net soos die HERE die kinders van Israel bemin, terwyl hulle hul tot ander gode wend en versot is op rosynekoeke.

2 Toe het ek haar vir my gekoop vir vyftien sikkels silwer en anderhalf homer gars.

3 En ek het aan haar gesê: Jy sal 'n lang tyd moet stilsit vir my, nie hoereer nie en aan geen man behoort nie; en so ook ek teenoor jou.

4 Want die kinders van Israel sal 'n lang tyd bly sit sonder koning en sonder vors en sonder slagoffer en sonder klippilare en sonder efod en huisgode.

5 Daarna sal die kinders van Israel hulle bekeer en die HERE hulle God soek en Dawid hulle koning, en met siddering aankom na die HERE en na sy goedheid in die laaste van die dae.

1 And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.

2 So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;

3 And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.

4 For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

5 And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.