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)

⁴ All of them commit adultery;^(A)
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.