Hosea 2:7-9

Tree of Life Version

⁷ For their mother has practiced prostitution.
She who conceived them has been shameful.
For she said, ‘Let me go after my lovers,
    who are giving me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁸ Therefore see, I will hedge her in with thorns,
and I will build a wall around her
so she cannot find her paths.
⁹ Then she will chase after her lovers,
but she will not overtake them.
She will seek them, but not find.
Then she will say:
‘Let me go and return to my first husband,
for was it better for me then, than now.’