7 How can I forgive you* for this very thing? Your own sons have left me, and they keep swearing+ by what is no God.*+ And I kept satisfying them,+ but they continued committing adultery,+ and to the house of a prostitute woman they go in troops.

10 For it is with adulterers*+ that the land has become full.+ For because of the curse* the land has gone to mourning,+ the pasture grounds of the wilderness have dried up;+ and their course of action proves to be bad, and their mightiness is not right.

4 All of them are adulterers,+ like a furnace set burning by a baker, [who] ceases poking after kneading dough until it is leavened.