¹⁶ It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,^(A)
from a stranger^[a] with her flattering talk,^(B)
17 who abandons the companion of her youth^(C)
and forgets the covenant of her God;

¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.^(A)

⁶ For the Lord has called you,
like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,^(A)
a wife of one’s youth^(B) when she is rejected,”
says your God.