Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her[a] way(A) with thorns;(B)
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.(C)
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;(D)
she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,(E)
for then it was better for me than now.”(F)

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  1. 2:6 LXX, Syr; MT reads your

Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her[a] way(A) with thorns;(B)
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.(C)
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;(D)
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,(E)
for then it was better for me than now.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:6 LXX, Syr; MT reads your