2 “Look at the shrines on every hilltop.Is there any place you have not been defiledby your adultery with other gods?You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a customer.You sit alone like a nomad in the desert.You have polluted the land with your prostitutionand your wickedness.
3 That’s why even the spring rains have failed.For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.
4 Yet you say to me,‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth.
5 Surely you won’t be angry forever!Surely you can forget about it!’So you talk,but you keep on doing all the evil you can.”
6 During the reign of King Josiah, the lord said to me, “Have you seen what fickle Israel has done? Like a wife who commits adultery, Israel has worshiped other gods on every hill and under every green tree.
7 I thought, ‘After she has done all this, she will return to me.’ But she did not return, and her faithless sister Judah saw this.
8 She saw that I divorced faithless Israel because of her adultery. But that treacherous sister Judah had no fear, and now she, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.