“Even so He would have removed you out of distress into a broad place where there is no restraint; and that which was set on your table would be full of richness.
Draw me after you, and we will run away. The king has brought me into his chamber. Let us shout with joy and rejoice in you; let us remember that your love is better than wine. Truly do the young women love you.
Therefore, the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore, He waits on high to have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of justice; how blessed are all who long for Him.
So now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be consumed; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down.
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that it will no longer be said, “As the Lord lives, who brought up the Israelites out of the land of Egypt,”
Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the Lord: I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, when you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Thus you shall say to him, “Thus says the Lord: Behold, what I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
lest I strip her naked and leave her as in the day that she was born, and turn her into a wilderness, and turn her into a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
All her idols will be shattered, and her gifts burned with fire, and I will annihilate her images, because she gathered them as the wages of a prostitute, and as the wages of a prostitute they will again be used.
Writhe and bring forth, daughter of Zion, like the woman in labor, because now you will go forth from the city and reside in the field, and you will come to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is to be nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
Her husband got up and went after her in order to speak tenderly to her and bring her back. His servant and two donkeys were with him. When he came to her father’s house, the girl’s father saw him and was happy to meet with him.