3. [2:5] Lest I strip her naked, and set her as bare as the day she was born, and make her as a midbar, and turn her like an eretz tziyyah (parched land), and kill her with tzamah (thirst).
4. [2:6] And I will not have mercy upon her banim; for they are the bnei zenunim.
5. [2:7] For their em hath played the zonah (prostitute); she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my lechem and my mayim, my wool and my flax, mine shemen (oil) and my shikkui (drink).
6. [2:8] Therefore, hinei, I will hedge up thy path with thorns, and wall in her wall, that she shall not find her netivah (way).
7. [2:9] And she shall chase after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say, I will go and return to my ish harishon (first husband); for then was it better with me than now.
8. [2:10] For she did not have da'as that I gave her dagan (grain), and tirosh (new wine), and yitzhar (oil), and multiplied her kesef and zahav, which they prepared for Ba'al.
9. [2:11] Therefore will I return, and take away My dagan in the season thereof, and My tirosh in the season thereof, and will take back My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness.
10. [2:12] And now will I expose her navlut (lewdness) in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of Mine hand.
11. [2:13] I will also cause all her masos (exultation, joy) to cease, her Chag (feast), her Chodesh (New Moons), and her Shabbatot, and all her Mo'adim (appointed feasts).
12. [2:14] And I will destroy her gefanim (vines) and her te'enim (fig trees), whereof she hath said, These are my etnan (harlot's wages) that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the wild beasts of the sadeh shall devour them.
13. [2:15] And I will visit upon her the yamim of Ba'alim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her ring and her jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot Me, saith Hashem.
14. [2:16] Therefore, hinei, I will allure her, and bring her into the midbar, and speak to her lev.
15. [2:17] And there I will give her her kramim (vineyards), and the Emek Achor (Valley of Trouble) I will make a petach tikvah (door of hope); and she shall sing there, as in the yamim of her youth, and as in the yom when she came up out of Eretz Mitzrayim.
16. [2:18] And it shall be in Yom Hahu, saith Hashem, that thou shalt call Me Ishi (my Husband); and shalt call Me no more Ba'ali.
17. [2:19] For I will take away the shemot (names) of Ba'alim out of her mouth, and they shall be remembered by their names no more.