Hosea 2:6-12

6Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

7She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.’

8She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold— which they used for Baal.

9“Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her naked body.

10So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.

11I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.

12I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.