lest (A)I strip her naked
    and make her as (B)in the day she was born,
and (C)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
(D)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    (E)because they are children of whoredom.
For (F)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For (G)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who (H)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

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