Jeremiah 2:35-3:5

Revised Standard Version

³⁵ you say, ‘I am innocent;
    surely his anger has turned from me.’
Behold, I will bring you to judgment
    for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
³⁶ How lightly you gad about,
    changing your way!
You shall be put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.
³⁷ From it too you will come away
    with your hands upon your head,
for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
    and you will not prosper by them.

3 “If^[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
    will he return to her?
Would not that land be greatly polluted?
You have played the harlot with many lovers;
    and would you return to me?
                says the Lord.
² Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see!
    Where have you not been lain with?
By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
    like an Arab in the wilderness.
You have polluted the land
    with your vile harlotry.
³ Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have a harlot’s brow,
    you refuse to be ashamed.
⁴ Have you not just now called to me,
    ‘My father, thou art the friend of my youth—
⁵ will he be angry for ever,
    will he be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken,
    but you have done all the evil that you could.”