Hosea 2:1-13

“Call your brothers My-People and your sisters Shown-Tender-Mercy. Go to court. Take legal action against your mother and put her on trial. For she is no longer my wife, and I am no longer her husband. She must remove the symbols of prostitution from her face and the seductive charms of her adulteries from between her breasts. If not, I will strip her naked and humiliate her and expose her nakedness as on the day she was born. I will make her as bare as the desert, turn her into a barren land, and let her die of thirst. I will feel no pity for her children, since they are the children of her shameless prostitution. Yes, their mother has prostituted herself, the one who conceived them has disgraced herself. For she said, ‘I will chase after my lovers; they will provide all I need: my robe, my clothing, my oil, and my wine.’ Behold! I will block her way with thorns and build up a wall against her to stop her in her tracks. Then when she tries to chase her lovers, she will not be able to catch them. When she looks for them, she will not find them. Eventually, she’ll say, ‘I must go back to my own husband. I was much better off then than I am now!’ Yet, she never understood that I was the one who was giving her the grain, sweet wine, and olive oil. I lavished upon her an abundance of silver and gold, which she took and made into idols of Baal. So I will take back my grain at harvest time and my new wine when the grapes are ripe. I will snatch away my wool and my flax used for clothing to cover her naked body. Then very soon I will publicly expose her disgrace before her lovers’ gawking eyes — so that no man will steal her from me. I will put an end to all her joyful festivities, her feasts, her new moons and her Sabbaths, and her celebrations will all cease. I will ruin her vines and fig trees of which she used to say, ‘These are the fees that my lovers pay to me.’ I will turn vines and fig trees into a jungle and make their fruit nothing but food for wild beasts. I will make her pay for the feast days, feasts for her to burn incense to the Baals. She got all dressed up and chased after her lovers, adorned with earrings and necklaces for them. And me? She has forgotten about me. This is YAHWEH speaking to you!”