Hosea 2:5-7

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ “For their mother has played the harlot. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after your lovers who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

⁶ “Therefore, behold. I will hedge your way with thorns, so that she shall not find her paths.

⁷ “Though she follows after her lovers, she shall not overtake them. Though she seeks them, she shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband. for I was better off at that time than now.’