Hosea 2:7 meaning and explanation
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
Hosea 2:7, Berean Standard Bible
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In Hosea 2 the prophet speaks for God, who is portrayed as the husband of Israel. The nation has chased after other gods and foreign alliances, pictured as lovers, and verse 7 describes the outcome of God's discipline: the pursuit fails.
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