^2 [a]If only I had a traveler’s lodging place
in the wilderness,
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,^(A)
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.^(B)

¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers;^(A)
the land mourns because of the curse,
and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.
Their way of life^[a] has become evil,
and their power is not rightly used