2 Look to the well-traveled paths and see!Where haven’t you committed adultery?On the roadsides you sit in wait for lovers,like a nomad in the wilderness.You have corrupted the landwith your cheap and reckless behavior.
3 That’s why the showers have failedand the spring rains have ceased.Still you act like a brazen prostitutewho refuses to blush.
4 At the same time you say to me,"My father, my friend since youth,
5 will you stay angry forever?Will you continue to be furious?"This is what you saywhile you do as much evil as you possibly can.
6 During the rule of King Josiah, the Lord said to me: Have you noticed what unfaithful Israel has done? She’s gone about looking for lovers on top of every high hill and under every lush tree.
7 I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me, but she didn’t. Her disloyal sister Judah saw this.
8 She also saw that I sent unfaithful Israel away with divorce papers because of all her acts of unfaithfulness; yet disloyal sister Judah was not afraid but kept on playing the prostitute.