²⁵ Keep your feet from going bare
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;^(A)
I love strangers,^(B)
and I will continue to follow them.”

⁵ Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.^(A)
For she thought, “I will go after my lovers,^(B)
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”^(C)