6 Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
7 She 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.”
8 She has not acknowledged that I was the onewho 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 corn 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.
10 So now I will expose her lewdnessbefore the eyes of her lovers;no one will take her out of my hands.
11 I will stop all her celebrations:her yearly festivals, her New Moons,her Sabbath days – all her appointed festivals.
12 I 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.