3 So the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers.Yet, you have the shameless look of a prostitute,and you refuse to blush.
4 But now you are calling to me.You say, ‘Father! You have been my companionever since I was young.
5 He won’t hold a grudge forever.He won’t always be angry.’You have said and done all the evil things that you could.”
6 When Josiah was king, the Lord asked me, “Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there.
7 I thought that after she had done all this that she would come back to me. But she didn’t come back, and her treacherous sister Judah saw her.
8 Judah saw that I sent unfaithful Israel away because of her adultery and that I gave Israel her divorce papers. But treacherous Judah, her sister, wasn’t afraid. She also acted like a prostitute.
9 Because she wasn’t concerned about acting like a prostitute, she polluted the land and committed adultery with standing stones and wood pillars.