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They were like well-fed horses full of sinful desire, each one wanting his neighbor’s wife. Should I not punish these people?” says the Lord. “Should I not make a nation such as this pay for its sins?

10 “Go up through her grape-fields and destroy, but do not destroy all of them. Cut away her branches, for they are not the Lord’s.

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They are well-fed, lusty stallions,
    each neighing for another man’s wife.(A)
Should I not punish them for this?”(B)
    declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge(C) myself
    on such a nation as this?

10 “Go through her vineyards and ravage them,
    but do not destroy them completely.(D)
Strip off her branches,
    for these people do not belong to the Lord.

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