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."
"Thou shalt abide for me many days ..." The Jerusalem Bible, the LXX, Harper and others have rendered this sit still for me,"[19] which points up the fact that Israel made no progress of any kind during the long pre-Christian centuries following the divorcement of the two kingdoms, called the "children of Israel" in the next verse.  When, at last, the Son of God Himself appeared, the whole nation was still blinded by the carnal and malignant secularism which had been their undoing to start with.