Hosea 2:8-13
New Living Translation
8 She doesn’t realize it was I who gave her everything she has—
the grain, the new wine, the olive oil;
I even gave her silver and gold.
But she gave all my gifts to Baal.
9 “But now I will take back the ripened grain and new wine
I generously provided each harvest season.
I will take away the wool and linen clothing
I gave her to cover her nakedness.
10 I will strip her naked in public,
while all her lovers look on.
No one will be able
to rescue her from my hands.
11 I will put an end to her annual festivals,
her new moon celebrations, and her Sabbath days—
all her appointed festivals.
12 I will destroy her grapevines and fig trees,
things she claims her lovers gave her.
I will let them grow into tangled thickets,
where only wild animals will eat the fruit.
13 I will punish her for all those times
when she burned incense to her images of Baal,
when she put on her earrings and jewels
and went out to look for her lovers
but forgot all about me,”
says the Lord.
Hosea 2:8-13
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.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
