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,like an Arab in the desert.You made the land unclean,because you did evil and were like a prostitute.
3 So the rain has not come,and 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 Now you are calling to me,‘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 said this,but you did as much evil as you could!”
6 When King Josiah was ruling Judah, the Lord said to me, “Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She was like a prostitute with her 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. And Israel’s wicked sister Judah saw what she did.
8 Judah saw that I divorced unfaithful Israel because of her adultery, but that didn’t make Israel’s wicked sister Judah afraid. She also went out and acted like a prostitute!