Hosea 2:6-8

Modern English Version

⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
    and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths.
⁷ She will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
    and she will seek them but will not find them.
Then she will say,
    “I will go and return to my first husband,
    for it was better for me then than now.”
⁸ But she did not know that it was I who provided her
    the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and multiplied her silver and gold
    that they used for Baal.