⁵ Or I will strip her naked,^[c]
    leaving her as on the day of her birth;
I will make her like the wilderness,
    make her like an arid land,
    and let her die of thirst.
⁶ I will have no pity on her children,
    for they are children of prostitution.
⁷ Yes, their mother has prostituted herself;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers,^[d]
    who give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
^8 [e]Therefore, I will hedge in her way with thorns
    and erect a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.
⁹ If she runs after her lovers, she will not overtake them;
    if she seeks them she will not find them.
Then she will say,
    “I will go back to my first husband,
    for I was better off then than now.”

¹⁰ She did not know
    that it was I who gave her
    the grain, the wine, and the oil,
I who lavished upon her silver,
    and gold, which they used for Baal,^[f]
11 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season;
I will snatch away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹² Now I will lay bare her shame
    in full view of her lovers,
    and no one can deliver her out of my hand.
¹³ I will put an end to all her joy,
    her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths—
    all her seasonal feasts.
¹⁴ I will lay waste her vines and fig trees,
    of which she said, “These are the fees
    my lovers have given me”;
I will turn them into rank growth
    and wild animals shall devour them.