Lest I strip her naked, And make her bare as in the day that she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And kill her with thirst.
However, "The domestic image is disappearing, and it is the nation coming into view here."[16]  The language here strongly suggests  Ezekiel 16:4ff, in which the nation was represented as a naked child covered with filth, which the Lord cleansed, clothed, and adorned.   Ezekiel 16:47 flatly declares that Israel "was more corrupt" than Sodom and Gomorrah!  In the light of this, how could it be supposed that God still cherishes fleshly Israel as "his chosen people?"