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2.7 :That give me my bread and my water,
 * My wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.'
 * Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns,
 * And I will make a wall against her,
 * That she shall not find her paths.
 * And she shall run 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 first husband;
 * For then was it better with me than now.'
 * For she did not know that it was I that gave her
 * The corn, and the wine, and the oil,
 * And multiplied unto her silver and gold,
 * Which they used for Baal.
 * Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof,
 * And My wine in the season thereof,
 * And will snatch away My wool and My flax
 * Given to cover her nakedness.
 * And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers,
 * And none shall deliver her out of My hand.
 * I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
 * Her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths,
 * And all her appointed seasons.
 * And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees,
 * Whereof she hath said: 'These are my hire
 * That my lovers have given me';
 * And I will make them a forest,
 * And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
 * And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim,
 * Wherein she offered unto them,
 * And decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,
 * And went after her lovers,
 * And forgot Me, saith the.
 * Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
 * And bring her into the wilderness,
 * And speak tenderly unto her.
 * And I will give her her vineyards from thence,
 * And the valley of Achor for a door of hope;
 * And she shall respond there, as in the days of her youth,
 * And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


 * And it shall be at that day, saith the ,
 * That thou shalt call Me Ishi,
 * And shalt call Me no more Baali.
 * For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth,
 * And they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
 * And in that day will I make a covenant for them
 * With the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven,
 * And with the creeping things of the ground;
 * And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land,
 * And will make them to lie down safely.
 * And I will betroth thee unto Me for [sic] ever;
 * Yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in justice,
 * And in lovingkindness, and in compassion.
 * And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness;
 * And thou shalt know the.