Hosea 3 (GNV)

Chapter Text

3:1 Then said the Lord to me, Goe yet, and loue a woman (beloued of her husband, and was an harlot) according to the loue of the Lord toward the children of Israel: yet they looked to other gods, and loued the wine bottels.

3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteene pieces of siluer, and for an homer of barlie and an halfe homer of barlie.

3:3 And I said vnto her, Thou shalt abide with me many dayes: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be to none other man, and I will be so vnto thee.

3:4 For the children of Israel shall remaine many dayes without a King and without a prince, and without an offering, and without an image, and without an Ephod and without Teraphim.

3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel conuert, and seeke the Lord their God, and Dauid their King, and shall feare the Lord, and his goodnes in the latter dayes.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "said", "lord", "loue", "woman", "beloued", "husband", and "harlot". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "said" and "lord", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The local GNV text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "said" and "lord" carries the first interpretive weight. In Hosea context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "said" and "lord" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.