² If only I had a traveller’s lodging place
in the wilderness,^(A)
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,^(B)
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.^(C)

¹⁰ For the land is full of adulterers;^(A)
the land mourns^(B) because of the curse,^(C)
and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.
Their way of life^[a] has become evil,
and their power is not rightly used,