So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley<n id="1" /> to purchase her.

<t /><p class="poetry">Yet<n id="1" /> until now<n id="2" /> she has refused to acknowledge<n id="3" /> that I<n id="4" /> was the onep> <p class="poetry">who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;p> <p class="poetry">and that it was I who<n id="5" /> lavished on her the silver and gold &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">which they<n id="6" /> used in worshiping Baal!<n id="7" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">They enthroned kings without my consent!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They appointed princes without my approval!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They made idols out of their silver and gold,p> <p class="poetry">but they will be destroyed!<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Look!<n id="1" /> Even if<n id="2" /> they flee from the destruction,p> <p class="poetry">Egypt will take hold<n id="3" /> of them,p> <p class="poetry">and Memphis will bury them.p> <p class="poetry">The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure<n id="4" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">thorn bushes will occupy their homes.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even now they persist in sin!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They make metal images for themselves,p> <p class="poetry">idols that they skillfully fashion<n id="2" /> from their own silver;p> <p class="poetry">all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen!p> <p class="poetry">There is a saying about them:<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Those who sacrifice<n id="4" /> to the calf idol are calf kissers!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>