^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.

^2 [a] Oh that I had in the desert
    a travellers' 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.