She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
    she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will say,
    “I will go back to my husband as at first,
    for then I was better off than now.”
She has not acknowledged that I was the one
    who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,
who lavished on her the silver and gold –
    which they used for Baal.

‘Therefore I will take away my corn when it ripens,
    and my new wine when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and my linen,
    intended to cover her naked body.

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