Hosea 2:6

Hosea 2:6 in other translations

Hosea 2:6 in context

1. 4Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy;
   for they are children of unfaithfulness;
2. 5For 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.’
3. 6Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
   and I will build a wall against her,
   that she can’t find her way.
4. 7She will follow after her lovers,
   but she won’t overtake them;
   and she will seek them,
   but won’t find them.
   Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband;
   for then was it better with me than now.’
5. 8For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
   and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.