⁷ And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For -- better to me then than now.

¹⁰ who [were] once not a people, and [are] now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.