5 For their mother has played the harlot;She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,Who give me my bread and my water,My wool and my linen,My oil and my drink.’
6 “Therefore, behold,I will hedge up your way with thorns,And wall her in,So that she cannot find her paths.
7 She will chase her lovers,But not overtake them;Yes, she will seek them, but not find them.Then she will say,‘I will go and return to my first husband,For then it was better for me than now.’
8 For she did not knowThat I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,And multiplied her silver and gold—Which they prepared for Baal.
9 “Therefore I will return and take awayMy grain in its timeAnd My new wine in its season,And will take back My wool and My linen,Given to cover her nakedness.
10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,And no one shall deliver her from My hand.
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease,Her feast days,Her New Moons,Her Sabbaths—All her appointed feasts.