Hosea 2:5-7

Living Bible

⁵ “For their mother has committed adultery. She did a shameful thing when she said, ‘I’ll run after other men and sell myself to them for food and drinks and clothes.’

⁶ “But I will fence her in with briars and thornbushes; I’ll block the road before her to make her lose her way, so that ⁷ when she runs after her lovers, she will not catch up with them. She will search for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I might as well return to my husband, for I was better off with him than I am now.’