28:003:001 Then said the lord unto me, Go yet,
love a woman beloved of
her
friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of
the
lord
toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods,
and
love flagons of wine.
28:003:002 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces
of silver, and for an
homer
of barley, and an half homer of barley:
28:003:003 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for
me many days; thou
shalt
not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another
man:
so will I also be for thee.
28:003:004 For the children of Israel shall abide
many days without a
king,
and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and
without
an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
28:003:005 Afterward shall the children of Israel
return, and seek the
lord
their God, and David their king; and shall fear the
lord
and
his goodness in the latter days.
28:004:001 Hear the word of the lord, ye children
of Israel: for the lord
hath
a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because
there
is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the
land.
28:004:002 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and
stealing, and
committing
adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
28:004:003 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every
one that dwelleth
therein
shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with
the
fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall
be
taken
away.
28:004:004 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another:
for thy people are
as
they that strive with the priest.
28:004:005 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and
the prophet also
shall
fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy
mother.
28:004:006 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou
hast
rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou
shalt
be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten
the law
of
thy God, I will also forget thy children.
28:004:007 As they were increased, so they sinned
against me: therefore
will
I change their glory into shame.
28:004:008 They eat up the sin of my people, and they
set their heart on
their
iniquity.
28:004:009 And there shall be, like people, like priest:
and I will
punish
them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
28:004:010 For they shall eat, and not have enough:
they shall commit
whoredom,
and shall not increase: because they have left
off
to
take heed to the lord.


