^{5 Ref} For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.'

^{6 Ref} Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can't find her way.

^{7 Ref} 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 was it better with me than now.'