⁷ 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.’

⁸ She has not acknowledged^(A) that I was the one
    who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,^(B)
who lavished on her the silver and gold^(C)—
    which they used for Baal.^(D)