Hosea 2:4-7 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

4. And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of fornications.

5. For their mother has been fornicating; she who conceived them has been brought to ruin. 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. Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths.

7. And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not obtain them, and she will seek them, but she will not find them, and she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, because it was to some extent better for me then, than it is now.'

Hosea 2