Hosea 2:5-7 for their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done 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.

MLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ for their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done 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. ⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns and I will build a wall against her, that she will not find her paths. ⁷ And she will follow after her lovers, but she will not overtake them. And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.