Hosea 1:2 [NIV]

The Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.” 

Gomer (גֹּ֫מֶר)= ‘Complete’ or ‘Whole’ 

Hosea 2:15 [NIV]

“There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.”

The valley of Achor (עָכוֹר) = Akon, ‘Trouble’

Hosea 3:1 [NIV]

“Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”

Trouble (θλῖψις) = Thlipsis, ‘Pressure’

John 16:33 [NIV]

“….In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Hosea 3:2 [NLT]

“So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver and five bushels of barley..”

Fifteen = Deliverance and Restoration

Five = Grace and Goodness

Psalm 24:1 [ESV]

“The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein…”

Hosea 3:3 [NIV]

“You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”

Hosea 3:4-5 [ESV]

“For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.”