40 Heb “my wages.” The words “for prostitution” are not in the Hebrew text but are supplied for clarity; cf. “gave … as payment for sex.”
41 Heb “I will turn them”; the referents (vines and fig trees) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
42 Heb “the beasts of the field” (so , ); the same expression also occurs in v. 18).

In other versions

And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,

of which she said,

‘These are my wages,

which my lovers have given me.’

I will make them a forest,

and the beasts of the field shall devour them.

I will ruin her vines and her fig trees,

which she said were her pay from her lovers;

I will make them a thicket,

and wild animals will devour them.

I will devastate her vines and fig trees.

She thinks that these are her wages

that her lovers have given her.

I will turn them into a thicket,

and the wild animals will eat them.

I will destroy her grapevines and fig trees,

things she claims her lovers gave her.

I will let them grow into tangled thickets,

where only wild animals will eat the fruit.

and I will lay waste to her vines and her fig trees,

of which she said,

“They are my payment for prostitution,

which my lovers gave to me.”

I will make them a forest,

and the wild animals of the field will devour them.

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,

Whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me:

And I will make them a forest,

And the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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