5. Yes, their mother is promiscuous;she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, “I will go after my lovers, the men who give me my food and water,my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”
6. Therefore, this is what I will do:I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall,so that she cannot find her paths.
7. She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them.Then she will think,“I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.”
8. She does not recognize that it is I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil.I lavished silver and gold on her,which they used for Baal.
9. Therefore, I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season;I will take away My wool and linen,which were to cover her nakedness.
10. Now I will expose her shame in the sight of her lovers,and no one will rescue her from My hands.