Hosea 2:7
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;
What it says
She will chase her lovers without finding them and will say it was better with her former husband.
What it is doing
This verse shows deprivation leading toward repentance.
In context
1“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ 2Rebuke your mother, 3Otherwise, I will strip her naked 4I will have no compassion on her children, 5For their mother has played the harlot 6Therefore, behold, 7She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; 8For she does not acknowledge 9Therefore I will take back My grain in its time 10And then I will expose her lewdness 11I will put an end to all her exultation: 12I will destroy her vines and fig trees, 13I will punish her for the days of the Baals