Hosea 2:4-15

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 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.7 13And I will judge her for the days of Baalim, in which she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the LORD.

14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak kindly to her.8 15And I will give her her vineyards there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came from the land of Egypt.