Micah 1:7

7And all her graven images will be cut to pieces, and all her rewards will be burned with fire, and I will place all her idols in perdition. For they have been gathered together from the pay of a kept woman, and even to the pay of a kept woman, they will return.
1:7The word ‘meretricis’ does not mean ‘prostitute’ but has more of the meaning of a mistress or a kept woman. This distinction is clear in the book of Baruch 6:10, where both words are used: “Dant autem et ex ipso prostitutis, et meretrices ornant:”(Conte)
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1:7 Her wages: That is, her donaries or presents offered to her idols: or the hire of all her traffic and labour.(Challoner)
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1:7 Of the hire of a harlot, etc: They were gathered together by one idolatrous city, viz., Samaria: and they shall be carried away to another idolatrous city, viz., Ninive.(Challoner)
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