Jeremiah 3:2-4

Easy-to-Read Version

² “Look up to the bare hilltops, Judah.
    Is there any place where you have not had sex with your lovers?
You sat by the road waiting for lovers,
    like an Arab in the desert.
You made the land ‘dirty’
    with all the evil sins you did
    when you were unfaithful to me.
³ You sinned, so the rain has not come.
    There has not been any springtime rains.
But still you refuse to be ashamed.
    The look on your face is like that of a prostitute who refuses to be ashamed.
⁴ But didn’t you just call me ‘Father’?
    Didn’t you say, ‘You have been my friend since I was a child’?