“I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.