Hosea 2:12

I will destroy her vines and fig trees, about which she said, “These are my wages for prostitution ¹  that my lovers gave to me!” I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees ²  into an uncultivated thicket, so that wild animals ³  will devour them.

Ps 80:12; Isa 5:5; Isa 7:23; Isa 29:17; Isa 32:13-15; Jer 26:18; Ho 2:5; Ho 9:1; Mic 3:12

¹ tn Heb “my wages.” The words “for prostitution” are not in the Hebrew text but are supplied for clarity; cf. CEV “gave…as payment for sex.”

² tn Heb “I will turn them”; the referents (vines and fig trees) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “the beasts of the field” (so KJV, NASB); the same expression also occurs in v. 18).