Hosea 2:7-9

International Children’s Bible

⁷ She will run after her lovers.
    But she won’t catch up to them.
She will look for them.
    But she won’t find them.
Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband.^[a]
    Life was better for me then than it is now.’
⁸ But she has not accepted that I was the one
    who gave her grain, wine and oil.
I gave her much silver and gold.
    But she used it to make statues of Baal.