3If they do not do that, I will not give them food and clothes as a husband should give to his wife; I will take away those things, and I will cause their nation to become as deserted as it was on the day that I brought their ancestors out of Egypt and caused them to become a nation MET. I will cause their country to be like SIM a desert; there will be no rain to water the ground MET.
4I will not pity the people, because they have abandoned me as MET prostitutes abandon their husbands.
5Their parents are like prostitutes MET: they have been unfaithful to me, and they have done very disgraceful things. They said, ‘We will run to our idols/gods who love us; they are the ones who give us food and water and wool and linen and olive oil, and wine to drink.’
6So it will be as though MET I am blocking their road with thornbushes, and putting put a wall around them so that they do not know which way to go.
Hosea 2
Hosea 2:3-6