5 For their mother has gone whoring, || Their conceiver has acted shamefully, || For she has said, I go after my lovers, || Those giving my bread and my water, || My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

6 Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns, || And I have made a wall for her, || And her paths she does not find.

7 And she has pursued her lovers, || And she does not overtake them, || And has sought them, and does not find [them], || And she has said: I go, and I return to my first husband, || For—better to me then than now.

Hosea 2:5-7, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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