Hosea 2:2-13 - Israel's Adultery Rebuked

² Contend with your mother, contend ye, for she is not my wife, and I not her husband: for she shall put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; ³ Lest I shall strip her naked, and I set her as the day of her birth, and I set her as a desert, and I set her as a land of dryness, and I slew her with thirst ⁴ And her sons I will not compassionate, for they are the sons of fornications ⁵ For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks. ⁶ Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths. ⁷ And she pursued those loving her, and she shall not overtake them; and she sought them and she shall not find: and she said, I will go and turn back to my former husband, for it was well to me then more than now. ⁸ And she knew not that I gave to her grain, and new wine, and new oil. and I multiplied silver to her, and gold they made for Baal. ⁹ For this I will turn back and take away my grain in its time, and my new wine in its appointment, and I took away my wool and my linen to cover her nakedness. ¹⁰ And now will I uncover her wickedness before the eyes of those loving her, and a man shall not deliver her from my hand. ¹¹ And I caused all her rejoicing to cease, her festival and her new moon, and her Sabbath and all her appointment ¹² And I destroyed her vine and her fig tree, of which she said, They are wages to me which those loving me gave to me: and I set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field ate them. ¹³ And I reviewed upon her the days of the Baals, which she will burn incense to them, and she will be decked with her earring and her necklace, and she will go after those loving her, and she forget me, says Jehovah.