Hosea 2:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ Therefore, I will line her path with thorns;
        and I will build a wall against her,
        so that she can’t find her paths.
⁷ She will go after her lovers,
        but she won’t catch up with them;
    she will seek them,
        but she won’t find them.
    Then she will say,
        “I will return to my first husband,
        for I had it better then than now.”
⁸ She didn’t know that I gave her
        the corn, the new wine, and the fresh oil,
    and that I gave her much silver,
        and gold that they used for Baal.