The Wages of the Harlot

3 If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.

2 “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways {waiting} for [your lovers], like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute you refuse to be ashamed.

4 Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You [are] my friend from youth.

5 Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”