Worship the sacred raisin cakes

Some parts of the bible just tickle me.

The LORD said to me, "Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes."  (Hosea 3:1)

"Ooohhh. The claw sacred raisin cakes"

And this, just after the glorious words of Hosea 2:16-23:

“And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

“And in that day I will answer, declares the LORD,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer Jezreel,
and I will sow her for myself in the land.
And I will have mercy on No Mercy,
and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’;
and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”