⁹ Although she pursues her lovers,^[a]
    she will not be able to overtake them.
If she looks for them,
    she will not find them.
Finally she will say,
    “I will return to my first husband,
    since I was far better off then than I am now.”
¹⁰ She has never realized
    that I was the one who gave her
    the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished upon her the silver and gold
    that they used for Baal.
¹¹ For this reason I intend to take back
    my grain when it is ready for the harvest
    and my new wine during the time of vintage.
And I will retrieve the wool and the flax
    with which her nakedness was to be covered.