⁴ I will not have mercy upon her children,
    for they are children of harlotry.
⁵ For their mother has played the whore.
    She that conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will pursue my lovers,
    who provide my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns,
    and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths.