Hosea 2:8-20

English Standard Version

⁸ And ^(A)she did not know
    that it was ^(B)I who gave her
    ^(C)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^(D)her silver and gold,
    ^(E)which they used for Baal.
⁹ Therefore ^(F)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and ^(G)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰ Now ^(H)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
^11 (I)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her ^(J)new moons, her ^(K)Sabbaths,
    and all her ^(L)appointed feasts.
¹² And ^(M)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    ^(N)of which she said,
‘These are ^(O)my wages,
    which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
    ^(P)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
¹³ And ^(Q)I will punish her for ^(R)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(S)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.

¹⁴ “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
    and ^(T)bring her into the wilderness,
    and ^(U)speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵ And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor^[a] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^(V)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.