Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; For you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
"Upon every grain-floor ..." This is the same as a threshing-floor; and as Polkinghorne expressed it: "This remark about harlotry on the threshing-floor has a double meaning.  Not only is there sacred prostitution, but there is the worship of false gods also."[8]