Look to the barren heights(A) and see.
Where have you not been immoral?
You sat waiting for them beside the highways(B)
like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.(C)
This is why the showers haven’t come(D)
why there has been no spring rain.
You have the brazen look(E) of a prostitute[a]
and refuse to be ashamed.(F)
Have you not lately called to Me, “My Father.(G)
You were my friend in my youth.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:3 Lit have a prostitute’s forehead

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