⁹Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace.

¹⁰And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:

¹¹And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

¹²And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her.

¹³And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

¹⁴Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

¹⁵And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord: That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali.

¹⁷And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.

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