2:9 Therefore, I will take back
and my new wine when it ripens;
I will take away my wool and my flax
which I had provided
2:10 Soon
and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
2:11 I will put an end to all her celebration:
her annual religious festivals,
monthly new moon celebrations,
and weekly Sabbath festivities –
all her appointed festivals.
2:12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees,
about which she said, “These are my wages for prostitution
that my lovers gave to me!”
I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees
so that wild animals
2:13 “I will punish her for the festival days
when she burned incense to the Baal idols;
she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
but
2:14 However, in the future I will allure her;
I will lead
and speak tenderly to her.
8:9 In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon,
and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.
8:10 I will turn your festivals into funerals,
and all your songs into funeral dirges.
I will make everyone wear funeral clothes
and cause every head to be shaved bald.
I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son;
when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.
8:11 Be certain of this,
“when I will send a famine through the land –
not a shortage of food or water
but an end to divine revelation!
8:12 People
and from the north around to the east.
They will wander about looking for a revelation from
but they will not find any.