The Importance of Stripping Naked

The children of a disgraceful mother now disowned by her former husband suffer great shame and stigma. The best that they can do is to plead with their mother, with the nation, more generally, to abandon its gross unfaithfulness to the lord. If the nation does not repent, it will be stripped naked. It will both lose all the riches it gained from its divine husband and will suffer great public shame and indignity. Stripping naked is elsewhere used to refer to the spoiling of the land and the capture of its people by their adversaries. This shameful woman would seek to return to the one that she had dishonoured by her behaviour,. recognizing that her condition had been better formerly