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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.
She will run after her lovers,
    but not catch them;
she will search,
    but not find them.
Then she will say, “I'll return
to my first husband.
    Life was better then.”

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