3 Therefore showers have been withheld and there has been no spring rain. You have a harlot’s brazen look; you refuse to be ashamed.
4 Did you not just now call to Me: ‘Avi! You are a friend of my youth.
5 Would He keep a grudge forever? Would He keep it to the end?’ So you said—yet you have done all the evil things you could.”
6 Then Adonai said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel did? She went up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there she committed adultery.
7 Yet I thought that after she had done all this she would return to Me. But she did not return. Even her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
8 I noted that when backsliding Israel committed adultery I sent her away and gave her a certificate of divorce. Yet, unfaithful Judah, her sister, did not fear. Instead she also went and committed adultery.
9 It happened that through her frivolous prostitution, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with wood.