Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her[a] way(A) with thorns;(B)
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.(C)
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;(D)
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,(E)
for then it was better for me than now.”(F)
She does not recognize(G)
that it is I who gave her the grain,(H)
the new wine, and the oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:6 LXX, Syr; MT reads your

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