Hosea 2:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.

⁶ Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.

⁷ And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.