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.

And I will visit upon her the days of the Baals, wherein she burned incense to them, and decked herself with her rings and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith Jehovah.

And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.

for I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation as do the [pagan] peoples,
For you have played the prostitute, turning away from your God.
You have loved prostitutes’ earnings on every threshing floor [attributing the harvest to the Baals instead of to God].

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

Israel was a fertile vine that yielded fruit. As his fruit multiplied, he multiplied altars to Baal. As his land prospered, they adorned the fertility pillars.

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.

My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!

When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.