11. I will stop all her celebrations:her yearly festivals, her New Moons,her Sabbath days – all her appointed festivals.
12. I will ruin her vines and her fig-trees,which she said were her pay from her lovers;I will make them a thicket,and wild animals will devour them.
13. I will punish her for the daysshe burned incense to the Baals;she decked herself with rings and jewellery,and went after her lovers,but me she forgot,’declares the Lord.
14. ‘Therefore I am now going to allure her;I will lead her into the wildernessand speak tenderly to her.
15. There I will give her back her vineyards,and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.There she will respond as in the days of her youth,as in the day she came up out of Egypt.