Therefore the showers have been restrained, and the [a]latter rain came not, and thou haddest a [b]whore’s forehead: thou wouldest not be ashamed.

Didst thou not still cry [c]unto me, Thou art my father, and the guide of my youth?

Will he keep his anger forever? will he reserve it to the end? thus hast thou spoken, but thou doest evil, even more and more.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:3 As God threatened by his Law, Deut. 28:24.
  2. Jeremiah 3:3 Thou wouldest never be ashamed of thine acts and repent: and this impudency is common to idolaters, which will not give off, though they be never so manifestly convicted.
  3. Jeremiah 3:4 He showeth that the wicked in their miseries will cry unto God and use outward prayer as the godly do, but because they turn not from their evil, they are not heard, Isa. 58:3, 4.

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