^7 (A)“How can I pardon you?
    Your children have forsaken me
    ^(B)and have sworn by those who are no gods.
^(C)When I fed them to the full,
    ^(D)they committed adultery
    ^(E)and trooped to the houses of whores.
⁸ They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
    ^(F)each neighing ^(G)for his neighbour's wife.

^10 (A)For the land is full of adulterers;
    ^(B)because of the curse ^(C)the land mourns,
    and ^(D)the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
^(E)Their course is evil,
    and their might is not right.

^4 (A)They are all adulterers;
    they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
    from the kneading of the dough
    until it is leavened.