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Hosea 3

1 The Jews shalbe cast off for their idolatrie. 5 Afterward they shal return to the Lord.
1.aThen said the Lord to me, Go yet, and love a woman (beloved of her housband, and was an harlot) according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israél: yet they looked to other gods, and bloved the wine bottles.
2.So cI bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley and an half homer of barley.
3.And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide with dme many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be to none other man, and I will be so unto thee.
4.For the children of Israél shal eremain days without a King and without a fprince, and without an offering, and without an image, and without an Ephod and without Teraphím.
5.Afterward shal the children of Israél convert, and seek the Lord their God, and gDavid their King, and shal fear the Lord, and his goodness in the latter days.

Notes

1-a.
Herein the Prophet represents the person of God, which loved his Church before he called her, and did not withdraw the same when she gave herself to idols.
1-b.
That is, gave themselves wholly to pleasures, and could not take up, as they that are given to drunkenness.
2-c.
Yet I loved her and paid a small portion for her, lest her perceiving the greatness of my love, should have abused me and not been under duty: for fifteen pieces of silver were but half the price of a slave, Ex. 21.32.
3-d.
I will try you a long time as in your widowhood whether you will be mine or no.
4-e.
Meaning, not only all the time of their captivity, but also unto Christ.
4-f.
That is, they should neither have policy nor religion, and their idols also wherein they put their confidence, should be destroyed.
5-g.
This is meant of Christ’s kingdom, which was promised unto David to be eternal, Ps. 72.17.