6. Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence her in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
7. And she shall pursue after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, and shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now.
8. And she did not know that I had given her the corn and the new wine and the oil, and had multiplied to her the silver and gold, which they employed for Baal.
9. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my new wine in its season, and will withdraw my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
10. And now will I discover her impiety in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
11. And I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths! and all her solemnities.
12. And I will make desolate her vine and her fig-tree, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards which my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13. 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.
14. Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart.
15. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16. And it shall be in that day, saith Jehovah, that thou shalt call me, My husband, and shalt call me no more, Baali;
17. for I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.