24     (A)a wild donkey used to the wilderness,
in her heat sniffing the wind!
    Who can restrain her lust?
None who seek her need weary themselves;
    in her month they will find her.
25 Keep (B)your feet from going unshod
    and (C)your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is hopeless,
    (D)for I have loved foreigners,
    and after them I will go.’

26 “As a thief is shamed when caught,
    so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
(E)they, their kings, their officials,
    their priests, and their prophets,

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