Hosea 2:8–17

⁸For she did not ^kknow

That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,

And multiplied her silver and gold—

Which they prepared for Baal.

⁹“Therefore I will return and take away

My grain in its time

And My new wine in its season,

And will take back My wool and My linen,

Given to cover her nakedness.

¹⁰Now ^lI will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,

And no one shall deliver her from My hand.

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

Her feast days,

Her New Moons,

Her Sabbaths—

All her appointed feasts.

¹²“And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,

Of which she has said,

‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’

So I will make them a forest,

And the beasts of the field shall eat them.

¹³I will punish her

For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.

She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry,

And went after her lovers;

But Me she forgot,” says the Lord.

God’s Mercy on His People

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,

Will bring her into the wilderness,

And speak ⁷comfort to her.

¹⁵I will give her her vineyards from there,

And ⁿthe Valley of Achor as a door of hope;

She shall sing there,

As in ^othe days of her youth,

^pAs in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“And it shall be, in that day,”

Says the Lord,

“That you will call Me ⁸‘My Husband,’

And no longer call Me ⁹‘My Master,’

¹⁷For ^qI will take from her mouth the names of the Baals,

And they shall be remembered by their name no more.