Jeremiah 3:2-4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

² Look up to the bare heights,^[a] and see!
    Where have you not been lain with?
By the waysides you have sat waiting for lovers,
    like a nomad in the wilderness.
You have polluted the land
    with your whoring and wickedness.
³ Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have the forehead of a whore,
    you refuse to be ashamed.
⁴ Have you not just now called to me,
    “My Father, you are the friend of my youth—