Hosea 3:1-2

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

Further Assurances of God’s Redeeming Love

3 The Lord said to me again, ‘Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.’ ² So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a measure of wine.^[a]