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11 And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her festivals,[a] her new moons,[b] and her Sabbaths,[c]
        and all her appointed festivals;[d]
12 and I will lay waste to her vines[e] and her fig trees,[f]
    of which she said,
        “They are my payment for prostitution,
    which my lovers gave to me.”
I will make them a forest,
    and the wild animals[g] of the field will devour them.
13 I will punish her[h] for the days of the Baals,
    to whom she burns incense,
and she decked herself with her ornamental ring and jewelry,
    and she went after her lovers, and forgot me
        —a declaration of Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:11 Hebrew “festival”
  2. Hosea 2:11 Hebrew “new moon”
  3. Hosea 2:11 Hebrew “Sabbath”
  4. Hosea 2:11 Hebrew “festival”
  5. Hosea 2:12 Hebrew “vine”
  6. Hosea 2:12 Hebrew “fig tree”
  7. Hosea 2:12 Hebrew “animal”
  8. Hosea 2:13 Literally “To visit sins upon her;” see 1:4