Jeremiah 3:2-4

Good News Translation

² Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution. ³ That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.

⁴ “And now you say to me, ‘You are my father, and you have loved me ever since I was a child.