³ Therefore the showers have been withheld,^(A)
    and no spring rains^(B) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen^(C) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.^(D)

¹¹ It will be made a wasteland,^(A)
    parched and desolate before me;^(B)
the whole land will be laid waste
    because there is no one who cares.

⁸ People staggered from town to town for water^(A)
    but did not get enough^(B) to drink,
    yet you have not returned^(C) to me,”
declares the Lord.^(D)