The LORD will scatter you like straw that is blown away by the desert wind.

"The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.

"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.

the east wind will sweep them from their homes;

like ships tossing in a furious storm.

Even though Israel flourishes like weeds, I will send a hot east wind from the desert, and it will dry up their springs and wells. It will take away everything of value.

You will all be disgraced---you that say that a tree is your father and that a rock is your mother. This will happen because you turned away from me instead of turning to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and save you.

They turned their backs on me; and though I kept on teaching them, they would not listen and learn.

When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.

But you still left me and worshiped other gods, so I am not going to rescue you again.

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them rescue you when you get in trouble."

Even her hired soldiers are helpless as calves. They did not stand and fight; all of them turned and ran. The day of their doom had arrived, the time of their destruction.

The LORD will take revenge and punish them; the time will come when they will fall; the day of their doom is near.

Do not let such a woman win your heart; don't go wandering after her.

She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count.