25. Let not thine lev turn aside to her drakhim; go not astray in her netivot (trodden paths).
26. For she hath cast down many chalalim (wounded); indeed, many strong men have been slain by her.
27. Her bais is the drakhei Sheol, going down to the chadarim (chambers, rooms) of mavet (death). [T.N. The off-stage character here in chp 7 has been the cuckold. Because of her Ba'al affair, Hashem became the cuckold of Israel even as Hosea became the cuckold of Gomer.]