Hosea 2:8-13 ▼

8 She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, I who lavished upon her silver, and gold, which they used for Baal,

9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; I will snatch away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.

10 Now I will lay bare her shame in full view of her lovers, and no one can deliver her out of my hand.

11 I will put an end to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths— all her seasonal feasts.

12 I will lay waste her vines and fig trees, of which she said, “These are the fees my lovers have given me”; I will turn them into rank growth and wild animals shall devour them.

13 I will punish her for the days of the Baals, for whom she burnt incense, When she decked herself out with her rings and her jewelry, and went after her lovers— but me she forgot—oracle of the LORD.