Hosea 2:2-13

2“Contend with your mother, 1contend, For she is 2not my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her put away her 3harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts,3Or I will strip her 4naked And expose her as on the 5day when she was born. I will also 6make her like a wilderness, Make her like desert land And slay her with 7thirst.4Also, I will have no compassion on her children, Because they are 8children of harlotry.5For their mother has 9played the harlot; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘10I will go after my lovers, Who 11give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my 12oil and my drink.’6Therefore, behold, I will 13hedge up 14her way with 15thorns, And I will build 16a wall against her so that she cannot find her 17paths.7She will 18pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ‘19I will go back to my 20first husband, For it was 21better for me then than now!’

8“For she does 22not know that it was 23I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they 24used for Baal.9Therefore, I will 25take back My grain at 26harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness.10And then I will 27uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her out of My hand.11I will also 28put an end to all her gaiety, Her 29feasts, her 30new moons, her sabbaths And all her festal assemblies.12I will 31destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will 32make them a forest, And the 33beasts of the field will devour them.13I will punish her for the 34days of the Baals When she used to 3536offer sacrifices to them And 37adorn herself with her 38earrings and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she 39forgot Me,” declares the Lord.