3. Therefore the showers were withheld,the spring rain did not fall.But because you have a prostitute’s brow,you refused to be ashamed.
4. Even now do you not call me, “My father,you are the bridegroom of my youth?
5. Will he keep his wrath forever,will he hold his grudge to the end?”This is what you say; yet you doall the evil you can.
6. The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Do you see what rebellious Israel has done? She has gone up every high mountain, and under every green tree she has played the prostitute.
7. And I thought: After she has done all this, she will return to me. But she did not return. Then, even though that traitor her sister Judah, saw
8. that, in response to all the adulteries rebel Israel had committed, I sent her away and gave her a bill of divorce, nevertheless Judah, the traitor, her sister, was not frightened; she too went off and played the prostitute.