Hosea 2:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ Therefore I will hedge up her^[a] way with thorns;
    and I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.
⁷ She shall pursue her lovers,
    but not overtake them;
and she shall seek them,
    but shall not find them.
Then she shall say, “I will go
    and return to my first husband,
    for it was better with me then than now.”
⁸ She did not know
    that it was I who gave her
    the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished upon her silver
    and gold that they used for Baal.