Hosea 2:6-8

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁶ “That is why I will block her way with thornbushes
and build a wall so that she can’t get through.
⁷ She will run after her lovers, but she won’t catch them.
She will search for them, but she won’t find them.
Then she will say, ‘I’ll go back to my first husband.
Things were better for me than they are now.’

⁸ “She doesn’t believe that I gave her grain, new wine, and olive oil.
I gave her plenty of silver and gold,
but she used it to make statues of Baal.