Not by them shalt thou prosper!
III. 1. [Saying]:—If a man dismiss his wife and she go from him and become another man's, shall she return to him?[171] Is that woman[172] not too polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers and—wouldest return unto Me? Rede of the Lord.
Lift to the clearings thine eyes, 2
Where not wast thou tumbled?
For them by the roads thou hast sate,
Like an Arab in desert,
Thou hast fouled the land with thy whoredoms
And with thy vices;
With thy lovers so many 3
It has meant but thy snare.[173]