Hosea 2:5-9
5 “For their mother has acommitted prostitution;She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘ bI will go after my lovers,
Who cgive me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my doil and my drink.’
6 “Therefore, behold, I will eobstruct ▼
▼As in some ancient versions; MT your
her way with gthorns, And I will build ▼
▼Lit her stone wall so that
a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her ipaths. 7 “And she will jpursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, ‘ kI will go back to my lfirst husband,
Because it was mbetter for me then than now!’
8 “Yet she does nnot know that it was oI myself who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they ▼
▼Or made into the
used for Baal. 9 “Therefore, I will ▼
▼Lit return and take My
,
rtake back My grain at ▼▼Lit its time
harvest time And My new wine in its season.
I will also take away My wool and My flax
That I gave to cover her nakedness.
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