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Look up to the bare hills and see.
Is there any place where you have not engaged in sex?[a]
You sat by the roadsides waiting for lovers,
    like a nomad[b] in the desert.
You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
That is why the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rains have not come.
Yet you have the shameless look of a prostitute.
You refuse to be ashamed.

Did you not just call to me, “My father!
You are my close friend from my youth!”?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:2 The main Hebrew reading uses a blunt sexual term. The reading written in the margin of the Hebrew text substitutes a milder term. The translation above splits the difference.
  2. Jeremiah 3:2 Or an Arab