7  “How can I pardon you?

Your children have ⁿforsaken me

and have ^osworn by those who are ^pno gods.

When I fed them to the full,

they committed adultery

and trooped to the houses of whores.

8  They were well-fed, lusty stallions,

each ^qneighing for his neighbor’s wife.

2  ¹ 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 ^gadulterers,

a company of treacherous men.