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11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her [a]solemn assemblies. 12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, [b]unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her [c]ear-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:11 Or, appointed feasts
  2. Hosea 2:13 Or, wherein she burned incense to them
  3. Hosea 2:13 Or, nose-rings

11 I will stop(A) all her celebrations:(B)
    her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
    her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.(C)
12 I will ruin her vines(D) and her fig trees,(E)
    which she said were her pay from her lovers;(F)
I will make them a thicket,(G)
    and wild animals will devour them.(H)
13 I will punish her for the days
    she burned incense(I) to the Baals;(J)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,(K)
    and went after her lovers,(L)
    but me she forgot,(M)
declares the Lord.(N)

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