Hosea 2:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ Their mother has played the prostitute;
        she who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
    She said, “I will seek out my lovers;
        they give me my bread and my water,
        my wool and my linen cloth, my oil and my drink.”

⁶ Therefore, I will line her path with thorns;
        and I will build a wall against her,
        so that she can’t find her paths.
⁷ She will go after her lovers,
        but she won’t catch up with them;
    she will seek them,
        but she won’t find them.
    Then she will say,
        “I will return to my first husband,
        for I had it better then than now.”