⁵ For ^(A)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(B)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(C)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

⁶ Therefore ^(A)I will hedge up her^[a] way with thorns,
    and ^(B)I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.