⁷ 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.’
⁸ For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
    and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
⁹ Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
    and my new wine in its season,
    and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.