8. She doesn’t realize it was I who gave her everything she has—the grain, the new wine, the olive oil;I even gave her silver and gold.But she gave all my gifts to Baal.
9. “But now I will take back the ripened grain and new wineI generously provided each harvest season.I will take away the wool and linen clothingI gave her to cover her nakedness.
10. I will strip her naked in public,while all her lovers look on.No one will be ableto rescue her from my hands.
11. I will put an end to her annual festivals,her new moon celebrations, and her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.
12. I will destroy her grapevines and fig trees,things she claims her lovers gave her.I will let them grow into tangled thickets,where only wild animals will eat the fruit.
13. I will punish her for all those timeswhen she burned incense to her images of Baal,when she put on her earrings and jewelsand went out to look for her loversbut forgot all about me,”says the lord.
14. “But then I will win her back once again.I will lead her into the desertand speak tenderly to her there.