2 “Look up to the bare hilltops, Judah.Is there any place where you have not been a prostitute?You have sat by the road waiting for lovers.You sat there like an Arab in the desert.You made the land unclean.This was because you did evil and were like a prostitute.
3 So the rain has not come.There have not been any spring rains.But your face still looks like the face of a prostitute.You refuse even to be ashamed of what you did.
4 But now you are calling to me.You say, ‘My father, you have been my friend since I was young.
5 Will you always be angry at me?Will your anger last forever?’Judah, you say this,but you do as much evil as you can!”
6 When King Josiah was ruling Judah, the Lord spoke to me. He said: “Jeremiah, you saw what unfaithful Israel did. She was guilty of adultery. She had idols on every hill and under every green tree.
7 I said to myself, ‘Israel will come back to me after she does this evil.’ But she didn’t come back to me. And Israel’s wicked sister Judah saw what Israel did.
8 Unfaithful Israel knew that I divorced her because of her adultery. But that didn’t make her wicked sister Judah afraid. She also went out and acted like a prostitute!