Jeremiah 3:3–10

³Therefore the showers have been withheld,

and the spring rain has not come;

yet you have a harlot’s brow,

you refuse to be ashamed.

⁴Have you not just now called to me,

‘My father, thou art the friend of my youth—

⁵will he be angry for ever,

will he be indignant to the end?’

Behold, you have spoken,

but you have done all the evil that you could.”

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 there played the harlot? ⁷And 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. ⁸She 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 too went and played the harlot. ⁹Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree. ¹⁰Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the Lord.”