48:5 I announced them to you beforehand;
before they happened, I predicted them for you,
so you could never say,
‘My image did these things,
my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’
2:5 For their mother has committed adultery;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will seek out
they are the ones who give me my bread and my water,
my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.
2:6 Therefore, I will soon
I will wall her in
2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch
she will seek them, but she will not find them.
Then she will say,
“I will go back
because I was better off then than I am now.”
2:8 Yet
who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;
and that it was I who
which they
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