Jeremiah 3:3–10

³Therefore the ^hshowers have been withheld,

And there has been no latter rain.

You have had a ⁱharlot’s forehead;

You refuse to be ashamed.

⁴Will you not from this time cry to Me,

‘My Father, You are ^jthe guide of ^kmy youth?

^5lWill He remain angry forever?

Will He keep it to the end?’

Behold, you have spoken and done evil things,

As you were able.”

A Call to Repentance

⁶The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what ^mbacksliding Israel has done? She has ⁿgone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. ^7oAnd I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous ^psister Judah saw it. ⁸Then I saw that ^qfor all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had ^rput her away and given her a certificate of divorce; ^syet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. ⁹So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she ^tdefiled the land and committed adultery with ^ustones and trees. ¹⁰And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me ^vwith her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.