2. Lift up your eyes unto the high places, and see where you have not been lain with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your harlotries and with your wickedness.
3. Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
4. Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?
5. Will he reserve his anger forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things that you could.
6. The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,
7. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn you unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8. And I saw, when for all the causes for which backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9. And it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with trees.
10. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned unto me with her whole heart, but in pretense,