Hosea 2:4-8
Hosea 2:4
“Also, I will take no pity on her children, Because they are children of infidelity.
Hosea 2:5
“For their mother has committed prostitution; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Hosea 2:6
“Therefore, behold, I will obstruct her way with thorns, And I will build a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.
Hosea 2:7
“And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband, Because it was better for me then than now!’
Hosea 2:8
“Yet she does not know that it was I myself who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they used for Baal.