Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel
2:8 Yet25 until now26 she has refused to acknowledge27 that I28 was the one
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;
and that it was I who29 lavished on her the silver and gold—
which they30 used in worshiping Baal!31
2:9 Therefore, I will take back32 my grain during the harvest time33
and my new wine when it ripens;34
I will take away my wool and my flax
which I had provided35 in order to clothe her.36
2:10 Soon37 I will expose her lewd nakedness38 in front of her lovers,
and no one will be able to rescue her from me!39
2:11 I will put an end to all her celebration:
her annual religious festivals,
monthly new moon celebrations,
and weekly Sabbath festivities—
all her appointed festivals.
2:12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees,
about which she said, “These are my wages for prostitution40
that my lovers gave to me!”
I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees41 into an uncultivated thicket,
so that wild animals42 will devour them.
2:13 “I will punish her for the festival days
when she burned incense to the Baal idols;43
she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
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