my people, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God!'" 003:001 Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins." 003:002 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley. 003:003 I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you." 003:004 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. 003:005 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days. 004:001 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. 004:002 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. 004:003 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die. 004:004 "Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest. 004:005 You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother. 004:006 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children. 004:007 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame. 004:008 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. 004:009 It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds. 004:010 They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh. 004:011 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding. 004:012 My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God. 004:013 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good.