Hosea 2:5 BBE

³  For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

⁴  And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

⁵  For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

⁶  For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

⁷  And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.