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Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as [in] the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms [are] they,

For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

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Otherwise I will strip(A) her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;(B)
I will make her like a desert,(C)
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.
I will not show my love to her children,(D)
    because they are the children of adultery.(E)
Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(F)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(G)

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