Hosea 2:1–13

^aSay ye unto your brethren, ^||Ammi;

And to your sisters, ^||Ru-hamah.

²Plead with your mother, plead:

For ^bshe is not my wife, neither am I her husband:

Let her therefore put away ^cher whoredoms out of her sight,

And her adulteries ^dfrom between her breasts;

³Lest ^eI strip her naked, and set her as ^fin the day that she was born,

And make her ^gas a wilderness, and set her ^glike a dry land,

And slay her ^ghwith thirst.

⁴And ⁱI will not have mercy upon her children;

For they be the ^kchildren of whoredoms.

⁵For their mother ^lhath played the harlot:

^mShe that conceived them hath done shamefully:

For she said, ⁿI will go after my lovers,

^oThat give me my bread and my water,

^pMy wool and my flax, mine oil and my ^†drink.

⁶Therefore, behold, ^qI will ^rhedge up thy way with thorns,

And ^†smake a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

⁷And she shall follow after ⁿher lovers, but she shall not overtake them;

And she shall seek them, but shall not find them:

Then shall she say, ^tI will go and return to my ^ufirst husband;

^tFor then was it better with me than now.

⁸For ^vshe did not know ^wthat I gave her ^xcorn, and ^†xwine, and ^xoil,

And multiplied her silver and gold,

^||Which they prepared for Baal.

⁹Therefore will I return, and ^ytake away my corn in the time thereof,

And my wine in the season thereof,

And will ^||recover ^zmy wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

¹⁰And now ^awill I discover her ^†lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

And none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

^11bI will also cause all her mirth to cease,

^cHer ^eefeast days, ^deher new moons, and ^dher sabbaths, and all her ^eesolemn feasts.

¹²And I will ^†destroy her vines and her fig trees,

Whereof she hath said, ^fThese are my rewards that ^fmy lovers have given me:

And ^gI will make them a forest,

And the beasts of the field shall eat them.

¹³And ^hI will visit upon her ⁱthe days of Baalim, wherein ⁱshe burned incense to them,

And ^jshe decked herself with ^jjher earrings and ^jjher jewels,

And ^fshe went after her lovers, and ^kforgat me, saith the Lord.