Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.

I granted you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

Return to the Lord and repent! Say to him: “Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.

So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Then she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.

Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

Therefore, I will take back my grain during the harvest time and my new wine when it ripens; I will take away my wool and my flax which I had provided in order to clothe her.

Even the calf idol will be carried to Assyria, as tribute for the great king. Ephraim will be disgraced; Israel will be put to shame because of its wooden idol.

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, he said to him, “Go marry a prostitute who will bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution, because the nation continually commits spiritual prostitution by turning away from the Lord.”