3 Therefore the showers were withheld,the spring rain did not fall.But because you have a prostitute’s brow,you refused to be ashamed.
4 Even now do you not call me, “My father,you are the bridegroom of my youth?
5 Will he keep his wrath forever,will he hold his grudge to the end?”This is what you say; yet you doall the evil you can.
6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Do you see what rebellious Israel has done? She has gone up every high mountain, and under every green tree she has played the prostitute.
7 And I thought: After she has done all this, she will return to me. But she did not return. Then, even though that traitor her sister Judah, saw
8 that, in response to all the adulteries rebel Israel had committed, I sent her away and gave her a bill of divorce, nevertheless Judah, the traitor, her sister, was not frightened; she too went off and played the prostitute.
9 With her casual prostitution, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and wood.