Madame Prostitute Calls Out, Too

13-18 Then there’s this other woman, Madame Prostitute—
    brazen, empty-headed, frivolous.
She sits on the front porch
    of her house on Main Street,
And as people walk by minding
    their own business, calls out,
“Are you confused about life, don’t know what’s going on?
    Steal off with me, I’ll show you a good time!
    No one will ever know—I’ll give you the time of your life.”
But they don’t know about all the skeletons in her closet,
    that all her guests end up in hell.

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17     “Stolen water is sweet;
    food eaten in secret is delicious!(A)
18 But little do they know that the dead are there,
    that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.(B)

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