3 Therefore the showers have been withheld,and the spring rain has not come;yet you have the forehead of a whore;you refuse to be ashamed.
4 Have you not just now called to me,‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
5 will he be angry forever,will he be indignant to the end?’Behold, you have spoken,but you have done all the evil that you could.”
6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?
7 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.