7 For their mother has practiced prostitution. She who conceived them has been shameful. For she said, ‘Let me go after my lovers, who are giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
8 Therefore see, I will hedge her in with thorns, and I will build a wall around her so she cannot find her paths.
9 Then she will chase after her lovers, but she will not overtake them. She will seek them, but not find. Then she will say: ‘Let me go and return to my first husband, for was it better for me then, than now.’
10 But she did not realize that I Myself gave her the grain, the wine and the fresh oil. I lavished on her silver, also gold— which they made into Baal.
11 Therefore I will return and take back My grain in its season, and My new wine at its appointed time, and I will snatch away My wool and My linen for covering her nakedness.
12 So now I will uncover her lewdness to the eyes of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from My hand.
13 I will also put an end to all her rejoicing— her feasts, her New Moon, her Shabbat, and all her moadim.