Hosea 2:5-7

Modern English Version

⁵ For their mother has played the whore.
    She that conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will pursue my lovers,
    who provide my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
    and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths.
⁷ She will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
    and she will seek them but will not find them.
Then she will say,
    “I will go and return to my first husband,
    for it was better for me then than now.”