Hosea 2:6-9

International Standard Version

⁶ “Look how I’m blocking her^[a] path with thorns
    and building a wall to hinder^[b] her,
        so she can’t find her way.
⁷ She will pursue her lovers,
    but she won’t catch up with them.
She will seek them,
    but she won’t find them.
Then she will say,
    ‘I’ll go back and return to my first husband,
        because it was better for me then than now.’
⁸ She didn’t recognize
    that it was I who provided her grain, wine, and oil,
and it was I who gave her silver,
    while they crafted gold for Baal.

⁹ “Therefore I’ll return
    and take back my grain at harvest time
        and my new wine in its season.
I’ll take back my wool and my flax
    that was to have covered her nakedness.