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For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
    and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
    and my new wine in its season,
    and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease:
    her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me;
    and I will make them a forest,’
    and the animals of the field shall eat them.
13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals,
    to which she burned incense,
when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
    and went after her lovers,
    and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

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But she did not know
    that it was I who gave her
        grain, new wine, and oil,
and who gave her silver in abundance,
    and gold which they made into a Baal.
Therefore I will take again
    my grain in its time,
        and my wine in its season;
and I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
10 And now I will uncover her nakedness
    before the eyes of her lovers,
        and no one will rescue her from my hand.
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