Hos 2:13 | NETfull | STEP | “I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot me!” says the Lord .

Hosea 2:13

13 “I will punish her for the festival days
when she burned incense to the Baal idols; ^{▼▼ Heb “the days of the Baals, to whom she burned incense.” The word “festival” is supplied to clarify the referent of “days,” and the word “idols” is supplied in light of the plural “Baals” (cf. NLT “her images of Baal”).}
she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
but ^{▼▼ The vav prefixed to a nonverb (וְאֹתִי, v^e’oti) introduces a disjunctive contrastive clause, which is rhetorically powerful.} she forgot me!” ^{▼▼ The accusative direct object pronoun וְאֹתִי (v^e’oti, “me”) is emphatic in the word order of this clause (cf. NIV “but me she forgot”), emphasizing the heinous inappropriateness of Israel’s departure from the Lord.} says the Lord.