129 “Greatly^[a] have they ^(B)afflicted me ^(C)from my youth”—
    ^(D)let Israel now say—

^12 (A)Stand fast in your enchantments
    and your many sorceries,
    with which you have laboured from your youth;
perhaps you may be able to succeed;
    perhaps you may inspire terror.

“I remember the devotion of ^(A)your youth,
    your love ^(B)as a bride,
^(C)how you followed me in the wilderness,
    ^(D)in a land not sown.

²¹ I spoke to you in your prosperity,
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
^(A)This has been your way from ^(B)your youth,
    that you have not obeyed my voice.

¹⁵ And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor^[a] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^(A)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.