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She will run after her lovers.
    But she won’t catch up to them.
She will look for them.
    But she won’t find them.
Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband.[a]
    Life was better for me then than it is now.’
But she has not accepted that I was the one
    who gave her grain, wine and oil.
I gave her much silver and gold.
    But she used it to make statues of Baal.

“So I will take away my grain at harvest time.
    And I will take away my wine when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and linen.
    I gave her those things to cover her nakedness.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:7 husband This refers to God here.

She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
    she will look for them but not find them.(A)
Then she will say,
    ‘I will go back to my husband(B) as at first,(C)
    for then I was better off(D) than now.’
She has not acknowledged(E) that I was the one
    who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,(F)
who lavished on her the silver and gold(G)
    which they used for Baal.(H)

“Therefore I will take away my grain(I) when it ripens,
    and my new wine(J) when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and my linen,
    intended to cover her naked body.

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