Hosea 2:7
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.’
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
She 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 it was better with me than now.’
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- she shall follow
- Hosea 5:13; 2 Chronicles 28:20–22; Isaiah 30:2, 3, 16; Isaiah 31:1–3; Jeremiah 2:28, 36, 37; Jeremiah 30:12–15; Ezekiel 20:32; Ezekiel 23:22
- I will
- Hosea 5:15; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 14:1; Psalm 116:7; Jeremiah 3:22–25; Jeremiah 31:18; Jeremiah 50:4, 5; Lamentations 3:40–42; Luke 15:17–20
- first
- Jeremiah 2:2; Jeremiah 3:1; Jeremiah 31:32; Ezekiel 16:18; Ezekiel 23:4
- for
- Hosea 13:6; Deuteronomy 6:10–12; Deuteronomy 8:17, 18; Deuteronomy 32:13–15; Nehemiah 9:25, 26; Jeremiah 14:22; Daniel 4:17, 25, 32; Daniel 5:21