Hosea 2.1-13

Say to your brother, "My people," and to your sister, "She has obtained pity."

Plead with your mother, plead-- for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband--
that she put away her harlotry from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts,

lest I strip her naked
and make her as in the day she was born,
and make her like a wilderness,
and set her like a parched land,
and slay her with thirst.

Upon her children also I will have no pity
because they are children of harlotry,
for their mother has played the harlot;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.

For she said, "I will go after my lovers,
who give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink."

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,
and I will build a wall against her,
so that she cannot find her paths.
She shall pursue her lovers
but not overtake them;
and she shall seek them,
but shall not find them.

Then she will say, "I will go
and return to my first husband,
for it was better with me then than now."

And she did not know
that it was I who gave her
the grain, the wine, and the oil,
who lavished on her silver
and gold, which they used for Baal.

Therefore I will take back
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.

Now I will uncover her lewdness
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

I will put an end to all her mirth,
her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths,
and all her appointed feasts

and I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
of which she said, "These are my hire
which my lovers have given me."

I will make them a forest,
and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals
when she burned incense to them
and decked herself with her ring and jewelry;

and went after her lovers,
and forgot me,

says the Lord.