Jeremiah 3:3-10

3Therefore the 1showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you had a 2prostitute’s 3forehead; You refused to be ashamed.4Have you not just now called to Me, ‘4My Father, You are the 5friend of my 6youth?57Will He be angry forever, Or keep His anger to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have 8had your own way.”

6Then the Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She 9went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there. 7Yet 10I 11thought, ‘After she has done all these things she will return to Me’; but she did not return, and her 12treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8And I saw that for all the 13adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and 14given her a certificate of divorce, yet her 15treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and prostituted herself also. 9And because of the thoughtlessness of her prostitution, she 16defiled the land and committed 17adultery with 18stones and trees. 10Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in 19deception,” declares the Lord.