Hosea 2:6-8

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⁶ “But I will fence her in with briars and thornbushes; I’ll block the road before her to make her lose her way, so that ⁷ when she runs after her lovers, she will not catch up with them. She will search for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I might as well return to my husband, for I was better off with him than I am now.’

⁸ “She doesn’t realize that all she has, has come from me. It was I who gave her all the gold and silver she used in worshiping Baal, her god!