Hosea 2:7

Shall not overtake. Israel’s efforts to find her lovers (see on v. 5) would be in vain. Neither the heathen nations around nor their deities would be able to assist Israel in her hour of need. If this was indeed the actual experience of Gomer (see on v. 2), it indicates that her adulterous associates were not interested in giving her permanent support, and avoided meeting her whenever possible.

My first husband. In the experience of Israel, the Lord was her “first husband.” If the exact parallel was true in the life of the prophet, this is an indication that Hosea was Gomer’s “first husband,” and, hence, that she did not become involved with other “husbands” until after her marriage to the prophet.

Then was it better. The same experience was true of the prodigal son in our Lord’s parable, “when he came to himself” (Luke 15:17) and realized that “then” in his father’s house it was “better with” him “than now” among the husks.