21 O how the faithful town*+ has become a prostitute!+ She was full of justice;*+ righteousness itself used to lodge in her,+ but now murderers.+

3 There is a saying: “If a man* should send away his wife* and she should actually go away from him and become another man’s, should he return to her anymore?”+

Has that land* not positively been polluted?+

“And you* yourself have committed prostitution with many companions;+ and should there be a returning to me?”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.

15 “‘But you began to trust in your prettiness+ and become a prostitute on account of your name+ and to pour out your acts of prostitution on every passerby;+ his it came to be.

5 “And O·hoʹlah began to prostitute herself,+ while subject to me, and kept lusting after those passionately loving her,+ after the As·syrʹi·ans,+ who were near,

3 And Jehovah went on to say to me: “Go once again, love a woman loved by a companion*+ and committing adultery,* as in the case of Jehovah’s love for the sons of Israel+ while they are turning to other gods*+ and are loving raisin cakes.”+