[a] Oh that I had in the desert
    a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
    and go away from them!
For they are all (A)adulterers,
    a company of (B)treacherous men.

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  1. Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew

Oh, that I had in the desert(A)
    a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
    and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,(B)
    a crowd of unfaithful(C) people.

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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.

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10 The land is full of adulterers;(A)
    because of the curse[a](B) the land lies parched
    and the pastures(C) in the wilderness are withered.(D)
The prophets follow an evil course
    and use their power unjustly.

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  1. Jeremiah 23:10 Or because of these things