Hosea 2:12-14

Christian Standard Bible

¹² I will devastate her vines and fig trees.^(A)
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,^(B)
and the wild animals will eat them.^(C)
13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,^(D)
to which she burned incense.^(E)
She put on her rings and her jewelry^(F)
and followed her lovers,
but she forgot me.^(G)

¹⁴ Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,^(H)
and speak tenderly to her.^[a]