Hosea 2:8–17

⁸She did not know

that it was I who gave her

the grain, the wine, and the oil

and who lavished upon her silver

and gold that they used for Baal.^*

⁹Therefore I will take back

my grain in its time

and my wine in its season,

and I will take away my wool and my flax,

which were to cover her nakedness.

¹⁰Now I will uncover her shame

in the sight of her lovers,

and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.^*

¹¹I will put an end to all her mirth,

her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbaths,

and all her appointed festivals.^*

¹²I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,

of which she said,

“These are my pay,

which my lovers have given me.”

I will make them a forest,

and the wild animals shall devour them.^*

¹³I will punish her for the festival days of the Baals,

to whom she offered incense

and decked herself with her rings and jewelry

and went after her lovers

and forgot me, says the Lord.^*

¹⁴Therefore, I will now allure her

and bring her into the wilderness

and speak tenderly to her.^*

¹⁵From there I will give her her vineyards

and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.

There she shall respond as in the days of her youth,

as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.^*

¹⁶On that day, says the Lord, you will call me “my husband,” and no longer will you call me “my Baal.”^{j 17}For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.^*