# Ask the nations, who has ever heard of such a thing as this?

"Ask the nations if any of them have ever heard of such a thing as this." The ULB sets poetry (18:13-17, 19-23) farther to the right to show that it is poetry.    
 
# The virgin Israel has committed a horrible act

"Israel, who is like a virgin, has done something horrible". Yahweh speaks of Israel being pure and faithful towards him as if she were a virgin and of Israel being unfaithful as if she had "committed a horrible act."