Chizuk Emunah Under the Microscope: Chapter 30

    She shall pursue her lovers
        but not overtake them,
    and she shall seek them
        but shall not find them.
    Then she shall say,
        ‘I will go and return to my first husband,
        for it was better for me then than now.’
    And she did not know
        that it was I who gave her
        the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and who lavished on her silver and gold,
        which they used for Baal.
    Therefore I will take back
        my grain in its time,
        and my wine in its season,
    and I will take away my wool and my flax,
        which were to cover her nakedness.
    Now I will uncover her lewdness
        in the sight of her lovers,
        and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
    And I will put an end to all her mirth,
        her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths,
        and all her appointed feasts.
    And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
        of which she said,
    ‘These are my wages,
        which my lovers have given me.’
    I will make them a forest,
        and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
    And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals
        when she burned offerings to them
    and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
        and went after her lovers
        and forgot me, declares the LORD.
(Hosea 2:7-13)

This passage is a clear prophecy of Israel's utter destruction. As a result, God would put an end to Israel's observance, because the nation will be dead. Remember that Hosea was a prophet of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, which became assimilated, never to recover. Dead people and dead nations do not observe things. This is why Rabbinical tradition almost always requires breaking a commandment of God if it is to save someone's life. This passage does not apply to Jesus, except in a homiletical sense.