Hosea 2:2-10

2Contend with your mother, contend: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her harlotry out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of harlotry. 5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.1

6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.2 7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them : then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.34 9Therefore will I return, and take away my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.5 10And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.6