The prophet is commanded again to love an advoutress: 3. whom he maketh long to expect her husband: to signify God's love to the Synagogue: 4. and the Jews' state in the new testament. 5. who at last shall be converted to Christ.The prophet is commanded againe to loue an aduoutresse: 3. whom he maketh long to expect her husband: to signifie Gods loue to the Synagogue: 4. and the Iewes state in the new testament. 5. who at last shal be conuerted to Christ.✦
And our Lord said to me: Yet again go, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adultera: an adulteress, an unfaithful wife; as our Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they have respect to strange gods, and love the vinacia: the grape-stones, the pressed husks of grapes of grapes.AND our Lord sayd to me: Yet againe goe, loue a woman beloued of her frend, and an aduoutresse; a as our Lord loueth the children of Israel, and they haue respect to strange goddes, and loue the kernels of grapes.✦Et dixit Dominus ad me : Adhuc vade, et dilige mulierem dilectam amico et adulteram, sicut diligit Dominus filios Israël, et ipsi respiciunt ad deos alienos, et diligunt vinacia uvarum.
2And I digged her unto me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a coro: a cor, a large Hebrew dry measure of barley, and for half a core of barley.And I * digged her vnto me for b fiftene peeces of siluer, and for a core of barley, and for halfe a core of barley.✦Et fodi eam mihi quindecim argenteis, et coro hordei, et dimidio coro hordei.
3And I said to her: Thou shalt exspectabis: wait for, await me many days: thou shalt not fornicate; and thou shalt be no man's: but I also will expect thee.And I sayd to her: Thou shalt expect me manie dayes: thou shalt not fornicate; & thou shalt be no mans: but I also wil expect thee.✦Et dixi ad eam : Dies multos exspectabis me ; non fornicaberis, et non eris viro ; sed et ego exspectabo te.
4Because many days shall the children of Israel sit without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.Because manie dayes shal the children of Israel sit without king, & without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without c theraphim.✦Quia dies multos sedebunt filii Israël sine rege, et sine principe, et sine sacrificio, et sine altari, et sine ephod, et sine theraphim.
5And after this the children of Israel shall return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king: and they shall pavebunt: come trembling in awe toward at the Lord, and at his goodness in the last days.And after this the children of Israel shal returne, & shal seeke the Lord their God, and Dauid their king: and they shal dread at the Lord, and at his goodnes in the last dayes.✦Et post hæc revertentur filii Israël, et quærent Dominum Deum suum, et David regem suum : et pavebunt ad Dominum, et ad bonum ejus, in novissimo dierum.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.