Parallel HOS 2:7

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BSB She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;
⇔ she will seek them but not find them.
 ⇔ Then she will say,
⇔ ‘I will return to my first husband,
⇔ for then I was better off than now.’

OEB She will pursue her lovers,
 ⇔ but will not overtake them.
 ⇔ She will seek them,
 ⇔ but not find them.
 ⇔ In time she will say,
 ⇔ ‘I will go back to my first husband,
 ⇔ I was better off then than now.’

WEB 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.’

MSG ^(2-13)“Haul your mother into court. Accuse her!
  She’s no longer my wife.
  I’m no longer her husband.
Tell her to quit dressing like a whore,
  displaying her breasts for sale.
If she refuses, I’ll rip off her clothes
  and expose her, naked as a newborn.
I’ll turn her skin into dried-out leather,
  her body into a badlands landscape,
  a rack of bones in the desert.
I’ll have nothing to do with her children,
  born one and all in a whorehouse.
Face it: Your mother’s been a whore,
  bringing bastard children into the world.
She said, ‘I’m off to see my lovers!
  They’ll wine and dine me,
Dress and caress me,
  perfume and adorn me!’
But I’ll fix her: I’ll dump her in a field of thistles,
  then lose her in a dead-end alley.
She’ll go on the hunt for her lovers
  but not bring down a single one.
She’ll look high and low
  but won’t find a one. Then she’ll say,
‘I’m going back to my husband, the one I started out with.
  That was a better life by far than this one.’
She didn’t know that it was I all along
  who wined and dined and adorned her,
That I was the one who dressed her up
  in the big-city fashions and jewelry
  that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies.
I’m about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining!
  Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past.
I’ll expose her genitals to the public.
  All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her.
Party time is over. I’m calling a halt to the whole business,
  her wild weekends and unholy holidays.
I’ll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains,
  of which she bragged, ‘Whoring paid for all this!’
They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage,
  feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats.
I’ll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion—
  all that sensuous Baal worship
And all the promiscuous sex that went with it,
  stalking her lovers, dressed to kill,
And not a thought for me.”
  God’s Message!

NET Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them;
 ⇔ she will seek them, but she will not find them.
 ⇔ Then she will say,
 ⇔ “I will go back to my husband,
 ⇔ because I was better off then than I am now.”

LSV And she has pursued her lovers,
And she does not overtake them,
And has sought them, and does not find [them],
And she has said: I go, and I return to my first husband,
For—better to me then than now.

FBV When she runs after her lovers she won't catch up with them; she'll look for them but she won't find them. Then she'll say, ‘Let me go back to my former husband, because it was better for me then than now.’

T4T They will run to their idols/gods that they think love them,
⇔ but they will not find them.
 ⇔ They will search for their false gods,
⇔ but they will not find them.
 ⇔ Then they will say, ‘Perhaps we should return to Yahweh, whom we worshiped previously [MET],
⇔ because things were better for us then than they are now.’

LEB  • [fn] but she will not overtake them; •  she will seek them and not find them; •  and she will say, “I will go •  and return to my first husband •  because it was better for me then than now.”

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BBE And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

MOF she will pursue her lovers and miss them,
 ⇔ seek them and never find them.
 ⇔ Then at last she will say,
 ⇔ “Let me go back to my first husband,
 ⇔ I fared better with him than today.”

JPS (2-9) And she shall run after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say: 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'

ASV And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

DRA And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.

YLT 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.

DBY And she shall pursue after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, and shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now.

RV And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

WBS And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them : then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

KJB And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
  (And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. )

BB And though she runne after her louers, yet shall she not ouertake them: she shall seeke them, but not finde them. Then shall she say, I wyll go and returne to my first husbande: for at that tyme it was better with me then nowe.
  (And though she runne after her louers, yet shall she not ouertake them: she shall seek them, but not find them. Then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband: for at that time it was better with me then nowe.)

GNV Though shee follow after her louers, yet shall shee not come at them: though shee seeke them, yet shall shee not finde them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband: for at that time was I better then nowe.
  (Though she follow after her louers, yet shall she not come at them: though she seek them, yet shall she not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband: for at that time was I better then nowe. )

CB and though she runne after hir louers, yet shall she not get them: she shal seke them, but not fynde them. Then shal she saye: well, I will go turne agayne to my first hu?bonde, for at yt tyme was I better at ease, then now:
  (and though she runne after her louers, yet shall she not get them: she shall seek them, but not find them. Then shall she say: well, I will go turn again to my first hu?bonde, for at it time was I better at ease, then now:)

WYC And sche schal sue hir louyeris, and schal not take hem, and sche schal seke hem, and schal not fynde; and sche schal seie, Y schal go, and turne ayen to my formere hosebonde, for it was wel to me thanne more than now.
  (And she shall sue her louyeris, and shall not take them, and she shall seek them, and shall not fynde; and she shall say, I shall go, and turn ayen to my formere husband, for it was well to me then more than now.)

LUT und ihre Mutter ist eine Hure, und die sie getragen hat, hält sich schändlich und spricht: Ich will meinen Buhlen nachlaufen, die mir geben Brot, Wasser, Wolle, Flachs, Öl und Trinken.
  (and ihre Mutter is one Hure, and the they/she/them getragen has, hält itself/yourself/themselves schändlich and spricht: I will my Buhlen nachlaufen, the to_me give Brot, water, Wolle, Flachs, Öl and Trinken.)

CLV Et sequetur amatores suos, et non apprehendet eos; et quæret eos, et non inveniet: et dicet: Vadam, et revertar ad virum meum priorem, quia bene mihi erat tunc magis quam nunc.
  (And sequetur amatores suos, and not/no apprehendet them; and quæret them, and not/no inveniet: and dicet: Vadam, and revertar to virum mine priorem, because bene mihi was tunc magis how nunc. )

BRN And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced them: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and all my necessaries.

BrLXX Ὅτι ἐξεπόρνευσεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτῶν, κατῄσχυνεν ἡ τεκοῦσα αὐτά· ὅτι εἶπε, πορεύσομαι ὀπίσω τῶν ἐραστῶν μου, τῶν διδόντων μοι τοὺς ἄρτους μου, καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ μου, καὶ τὰ ἱμάτιά μου, καὶ τὰ ὀθόνιά μου, τὸ ἔλαιόν μου, καὶ πάντα ὅσα μοι καθήκει.
  (Hoti exeporneusen haʸ maʸtaʸr autōn, kataʸsⱪunen haʸ tekousa auta; hoti eipe, poreusomai opisō tōn erastōn mou, tōn didontōn moi tous artous mou, kai to hudōr mou, kai ta himatia mou, kai ta othonia mou, to elaion mou, kai panta hosa moi kathaʸkei. )