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You children are the result
of her unfaithfulness,
    and I'll show you no pity.
Your mother was unfaithful.
She was disgraceful and said,
    “I'll run after my lovers.
Everything comes from them—
    my food and drink,
    my linen and wool,
    my olive oil and wine.”

I, the Lord, will build
a fence of thorns
    to block her path.

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I will not show my love to her children,(A)
    because they are the children of adultery.(B)
Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,(C)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’(D)
Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
    I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.(E)

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