2:5 For their mother has committed adultery;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will seek out
they are the ones who give me my bread and my water,
my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.
2:7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch
she will seek them, but she will not find them.
Then she will say,
“I will go back
because I was better off then than I am now.”
2:23 “How can you say, ‘I have not made myself unclean.
I have not paid allegiance to
Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom!
Think about the things you have done there!
You are like a flighty, young female camel
that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path.
2:24 You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness.
In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male.
No one can hold her back when she is in heat.
None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her.
At mating time she is easy to find.
2:25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out
and your throats become dry.
But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me
because I love those foreign gods