Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
"Thy wife will be a harlot ..." Such a result as this would have been an inevitable consequence of the great military disaster that loomed upon the horizon of the doomed people: