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Lift up your eyes to (A)the bare heights, and see!
    Where have you not been ravished?
(B)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
    like an Arab in the wilderness.
(C)You have polluted the land
    with your vile whoredom.
(D)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have (E)the forehead of a whore;
    you refuse to be ashamed.
Have you not just now (F)called to me,
    ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—

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“Look up to the barren heights(A) and see.
    Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside(B) you sat waiting for lovers,
    sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land(C)
    with your prostitution(D) and wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withheld,(E)
    and no spring rains(F) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen(G) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.(H)
Have you not just called to me:
    ‘My Father,(I) my friend from my youth,(J)

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