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.