Hosea 2:8-13

New International Reader's Version

⁸She wouldn’t admit that I was the one
    who gave her everything she had.
    I provided her with grain, olive oil and fresh wine.
I gave her plenty of silver and gold.
    But she used it to make statues of Baal.

⁹“So I will take away my grain when it gets ripe.
    I’ll take my fresh wine when it’s ready.
I’ll take back my wool and my linen.
    I gave them to her to cover her naked body.
¹⁰So now I’ll uncover her body.
    All her lovers will see it.
    No one can stop me from punishing her.
¹¹I will put a stop to the special times she celebrates.
    I’ll bring an end to the feasts she celebrates each year.
I’ll stop her New Moon feasts and her Sabbath days.
    I’ll bring all her appointed feasts to an end.
¹²I will destroy her vines and her fig trees.
    She said they were her pay from her lovers.
I’ll make them like clumps of bushes and weeds.
    Wild animals will eat them up.
¹³Israel burned incense to the gods
    that were named Baal.
I will punish her
    for all the times she did that.
She decorated herself with rings and jewelry.
    Then she went after her lovers.
    But she forgot all about me,”
    declares the Lord.