the hires thereof] That is, all the riches and goods, which she thought to have gotten, by her unlawfull treaties and leagues with profane nations, and as it were, for a reward given her for consenting to idolatrie. See Hosea 2:5. 12. & 9. 1. shall return to] A proverbiall kind of speech: as much as to say, those goods shall go away as they came: that which hath been gotten in the brothell, shall be lost in the brothell. Or the Assyrians, who shall make pry of them, shall also take them, as a reward, and gift of their idols.