^2 [a] Oh that I had in the desert
    a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
    and go away from them!
For they are all ^(A)adulterers,
    a company of ^(B)treacherous men.

^3 (A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
    falsehood and not truth has grown strong^[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    ^(B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.