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Therefore, this is what I will do:
    I will block your[a] way with thorns.
    I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.
She will chase after her lovers,
    but she will not reach them.
    She will seek them,
    but she will not find them.
    She will say, “I will go back to my first husband,
    because then it was better for me than it is now.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:6 Your is the reading of the Hebrew. The Greek and Syriac read her.

Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
    I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.(A)
She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
    she will look for them but not find them.(B)
Then she will say,
    ‘I will go back to my husband(C) as at first,(D)
    for then I was better off(E) than now.’

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