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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Footnotes

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

Therefore, Look!
    I am going to hedge her path[a] with thorns,[b]
        and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall against her,
    and she will not find her paths.
Then she will pursue her lovers,[c]
    but she will not overtake them;
        she will seek them and not find them;
and she will say, “I will go
    and return to my first husband
    because it was better for me then than now.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:6 Hebrew “your path”
  2. Hosea 2:6 Literally “with the thorns”
  3. Hosea 2:7 Literally “the ones who love her”