Ezekiel 16:18-19

16:18 You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them. 16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.

Proverbs 7:17

7:17 I have perfumed my bed

with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Jeremiah 44:17

44:17 Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. ¹  We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven ²  just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles. ³ 

Hosea 2:8-9

Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel

2:8 Yet ⁴  until now ⁵  she has refused to acknowledge ⁶  that I ⁷  was the one

who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;

and that it was I who ⁸  lavished on her the silver and gold –

which they ⁹  used in worshiping Baal! ¹⁰ 

2:9 Therefore, I will take back ¹¹  my grain during the harvest time ¹² 

and my new wine when it ripens; ¹³ 

I will take away my wool and my flax

which I had provided ¹⁴  in order to clothe her. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “that went out of our mouth.” I.e., everything we said, promised, or vowed.

² tn Heb “sacrifice to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” The expressions have been combined to simplify and shorten the sentence. The same combination also occurs in vv. 18, 19.

³ tn Heb “saw [or experienced] no disaster/trouble/harm.”

⁴ tn Or “For” (so KJV, NASB); or “But” (so NCV).

⁵ tn The phrase “until now” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.

⁶ tn Heb “she does not know” (so NASB, NCV); or “she does not acknowledge.”

⁷ tn The 1st person common singular independent personal pronoun אָנֹכִי (’anokhi, “I”) is emphatic, since the subject of this verbal clause is already explicit in the verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, Qal perfect 1st person common singular: “I gave”).

⁸ tn The phrase “that it was I who” does not appear in the Hebrew text here, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

⁹ sn The third person plural here is an obvious reference to the Israelites who had been unfaithful to the Lord in spite of all that he had done for them. To maintain the imagery of Israel as the prostitute, a third person feminine singular would be called for; in the interest of literary consistency this has been supplied in some English translations (e.g., NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

¹⁰ tn Heb “for Baal” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); cf. TEV “in the worship of Baal.”

¹¹ tn Heb “I will return and I will take.” The two verbs joined with vav conjunction form a verbal hendiadys in which the first verb functions adverbially and the second retains its full verbal sense (GKC 386-87 §120.d, h): אָשׁוּב וְלָקַחְתִּי (’ashuv vÿlaqakhti) means “I will take back.”

¹² tn Heb “in its time” (so NAB, NRSV).

¹³ tn Heb “in its season” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV).

¹⁴ tn The words “which I had provided” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; cf. NIV “intended to cover.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “to cover her nakedness” (so KJV and many other English versions); TEV “for clothing.”