At one moment she is outside, the next in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner.)

Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights, and see. Where have you not been lain with and ravished? By the highways you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your harlotry and with your evil.

You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.

Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah's wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father's house till my son Shelah is grown. For he thought, Lest he also die like his brothers. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

And Judah acknowledged them and said, She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he never knew her again.