Prophetia Osee, 3

1. et dixit Dominus ad me adhuc vade dilige mulierem dilectam amico et adulteram sicut diligit Dominus filios Israël et ipsi respectant ad deos alienos et diligunt vinacea uvarum

1. And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress : as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

2. et fodi eam mihi quindecim argenteis et choro hordei et dimidio choro hordei

2. And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

3. et dixi ad eam dies multos expectabis me non fornicaberis et non eris viro sed et ego expectabo te

3. And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.

4. quia dies multos sedebunt filii Israël sine rege et sine principe et sine sacrificio et sine altari et sine ephod et sine therafin

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

5. et post hæc revertentur filii Israël et quærent Dominum Deum suum et David regem suum et pavebunt ad Dominum et ad bonum ejus in novissimo dierum

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