Jeremiah 3:3–10

³Therefore the showers have been withheld,

and the spring rain has not come,

yet you have the forehead of a prostitute;

you refuse to be ashamed.^*

⁴Have you not just now called to me,

“My Father, you are the friend of my youth—^*

⁵will he be angry forever,

will he be indignant to the end?”

This is how you have spoken,

but you have done all the evil that you could.^*

A Call to Repentance

⁶The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?^{* 7}And I thought, “After she has done all this she will return to me,” but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.^{* 8}She^g saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.^{* 9}Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.^{* 10}Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.^*