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For she did not know that I gave her corn and wine and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

Therefore will I return and take away My corn at the harvest thereof, and My wine in the season thereof, and will recover My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness.

10 And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of Mine hand.

11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, ‘These are my rewards 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, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot Me,” saith the Lord.

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For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they [a]used for Baal. Therefore will I [b]take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness. 10 And now will I uncover her [c]lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her [d]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, [e]unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her [f]ear-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:8 Or, made into the image of Baal
  2. Hosea 2:9 Or, return, and take away
  3. Hosea 2:10 Or, shame
  4. Hosea 2:11 Or, appointed feasts
  5. Hosea 2:13 Or, wherein she burned incense to them
  6. Hosea 2:13 Or, nose-rings