Hosea 2:8–17

⁸But she does not know that I was the one

who gave her grain, new wine, and oil.

I gave her much silver and gold,

but she used it for Baal.

⁹“So I will come back and take away my grain at harvest time

and my new wine when it is ready.

I will take back my wool and linen

that covered her nakedness.

¹⁰So I will show her nakedness to her lovers,

and no one will save her from me.

¹¹I will put an end to all her celebrations:

her yearly festivals, her New Moon festivals, and her Sabbaths.

I will stop all of her special feasts.

¹²I will destroy her vines and fig trees,

which she said were her pay from her lovers.

I will turn them into a forest,

and wild animals will eat them.

¹³I will punish her for all the times

she burned incense to the Baals.

She put on her rings and jewelry

and went chasing after her lovers,

but she forgot me!”

says the Lord.

¹⁴“So I am going to attract her;

I will lead her into the desert

and speak tenderly to her.

¹⁵There I will give her back her vineyards,

and I will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope.

There she will respond as when she was young,

as when she came out of Egypt.”

¹⁶The Lord says, “In the future she will call me ‘my husband;’

no longer will she call me ‘my baal.’ ⁿ

¹⁷I will never let her say the names of Baal again;

people won’t use their names anymore.