“Therefore I will take away my grain(A) when it ripens,
    and my new wine(B) when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and my linen,
    intended to cover her naked body.
10 So now I will expose(C) her lewdness
    before the eyes of her lovers;(D)
    no one will take her out of my hands.(E)
11 I will stop(F) all her celebrations:(G)
    her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
    her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.(H)
12 I will ruin her vines(I) and her fig trees,(J)
    which she said were her pay from her lovers;(K)
I will make them a thicket,(L)
    and wild animals will devour them.(M)
13 I will punish her for the days
    she burned incense(N) to the Baals;(O)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,(P)
    and went after her lovers,(Q)
    but me she forgot,(R)
declares the Lord.(S)

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Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.

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