¹² your mother will be utterly humiliated;
she who bore you will be put to shame.
Look! She will lag behind all^[a] the nations—
a dry land, a wilderness,^(A) an Arabah.

³ Otherwise, I will strip her naked^(A)
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert^(B)
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.^(C)