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“I won’t show my love to her children.
    They are the children of other men.
Their mother hasn’t been faithful to me.
    She who became pregnant with them
    has brought shame on herself.
She said, ‘I will chase after my lovers.
    They give me my food and water.
They provide me with wool and linen.
    They give me olive oil and wine.’
So I will block her path with bushes that have thorns.
    I’ll build a wall around her.
    Then she can’t go to her lovers.

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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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