⁸ Go now, write it on a tablet^(A) for them,
    inscribe it on a scroll,^(B)
that for the days to come
    it may be an everlasting witness.^(C)

⁸ Behind your doors and your doorposts
    you have put your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,
    you climbed into it and opened it wide;
you made a pact with those whose beds you love,^(A)
    and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.^(B)

“Write^(A) down the revelation
    and make it plain on tablets
    so that a herald^[a] may run with it.

²³ “Oh, that my words were recorded,
    that they were written on a scroll,^(A)
24 that they were inscribed with an iron tool^(B) on^[a] lead,
    or engraved in rock forever!^(C)
25 I know that my redeemer^[b](D) lives,^(E)
    and that in the end he will stand on the earth.^[c]