(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
(Parenthetical description of the whorish woman's characteristics.)
(She (is) loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house. "Stubborn." The same word as is applied to Israel represented as an untamed and refractory heifer (Hosea 4:16). Having cast off the wholesome yoke of religious and social restraints, she is ready for every sin. Instead of the soft and gentle voice of feminine modesty, she is "loud," and full of words flowing from assurance. A modest woman shrinks from undue publicity, and is a "keeper at home" (Titus 2:5), and industrious (Proverbs 31:10-31); but she "wanders about from house to house" (1 Timothy 5:13); disliking home labour, she resorts to places of amusement, the dance, etc.
Now (is she) without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner) - where there is a throng of passers to and fro. There is a gradation: first, she is "without" - i:e., out of doors, at her own door or near her house; then she is "in the streets," further away from her own house; then "at every corner lying in wait."