“‘I remember the devotion of your youth,^(A)
    how as a bride you loved me
and followed me through the wilderness,^(B)
    through a land not sown.

⁶ They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord,
    who brought us up out of Egypt^(A)
and led us through the barren wilderness,
    through a land of deserts^(B) and ravines,^(C)
a land of drought and utter darkness,
    a land where no one travels^(D) and no one lives?’

⁶ That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places^(A) of the desert,
    in a salt^(B) land where no one lives.