Hosea 2:5-13

5For their mother has 1played the harlot; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘2I will go after my lovers, Who 3give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my 4oil and my drink.’6Therefore, behold, I will 5hedge up 6her way with 7thorns, And I will build 8a wall against her so that she cannot find her 9paths.7She will 10pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ‘11I will go back to my 12first husband, For it was 13better for me then than now!’

8“For she does 14not know that it was 15I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they 16used for Baal.9Therefore, I will 17take back My grain at 18harvest 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 19uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her out of My hand.11I will also 20put an end to all her gaiety, Her 21feasts, her 22new moons, her sabbaths And all her festal assemblies.12I will 23destroy her vines and fig trees, Of which she said, ‘These are my wages Which my lovers have given me.’ And I will 24make them a forest, And the 25beasts of the field will devour them.13I will punish her for the 26days of the Baals When she used to 2728offer sacrifices to them And 29adorn herself with her 30earrings and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she 31forgot Me,” declares the Lord.