Hosea 2:5-7

New American Standard Bible

⁵ For their mother has ^(A)committed prostitution;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘^(B)I will go after my lovers,
Who ^(C)give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my ^(D)oil and my drink.’
⁶ Therefore, behold, I will ^(E)obstruct ^[a]her way with ^(F)thorns,
And I will build ^[b]a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her ^(G)paths.
⁷ And she will ^(H)pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, ‘^(I)I will go back to my ^(J)first husband,
Because it was ^(K)better for me then than now!’