“‘I remember the devotion of your youth,^(B)
    how as a bride you loved me
and followed me through the wilderness,^(C)
    through a land not sown.
³ Israel was holy^(D) to the Lord,^(E)
    the firstfruits^(F) of his harvest;
all who devoured^(G) her were held guilty,^(H)
    and disaster overtook them,’”
declares the Lord.

²⁰ “Long ago you broke off your yoke^(A)
    and tore off your bonds;^(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’^(C)
Indeed, on every high hill^(D)
    and under every spreading tree^(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.^(F)
21 I had planted^(G) you like a choice vine^(H)
    of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
    into a corrupt,^(I) wild vine?
²² Although you wash^(J) yourself with soap^(K)
    and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
    the stain of your guilt is still before me,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.^(L)
23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;^(M)
    I have not run after the Baals’?^(N)
See how you behaved in the valley;^(O)
    consider what you have done.
You are a swift she-camel
    running^(P) here and there,
²⁴ a wild donkey^(Q) accustomed to the desert,^(R)
    sniffing the wind in her craving—
    in her heat who can restrain her?
Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves;
    at mating time they will find her.
²⁵ Do not run until your feet are bare
    and your throat is dry.
But you said, ‘It’s no use!^(S)
    I love foreign gods,^(T)
    and I must go after them.’^(U)

³² Does a young woman forget her jewelry,
    a bride her wedding ornaments?
Yet my people have forgotten^(A) me,
    days without number.
³³ How skilled you are at pursuing^(B) love!
    Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

3 “If a man divorces^(A) his wife
    and she leaves him and marries another man,
should he return to her again?
    Would not the land be completely defiled?^(B)
But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers^(C)—
    would you now return to me?”^(D)
declares the Lord.
² “Look up to the barren heights^(E) and see.
    Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside^(F) you sat waiting for lovers,
    sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land^(G)
    with your prostitution^(H) and wickedness.
³ Therefore the showers have been withheld,^(I)
    and no spring rains^(J) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen^(K) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.^(L)
4 Have you not just called to me:
    ‘My Father,^(M) my friend from my youth,^(N)
5 will you always be angry?^(O)
    Will your wrath continue forever?’
This is how you talk,
    but you do all the evil you can.”

⁹ “Therefore I will take away my grain^(S) when it ripens,
    and my new wine^(T) when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and my linen,
    intended to cover her naked body.
¹⁰ So now I will expose^(U) her lewdness
    before the eyes of her lovers;^(V)
    no one will take her out of my hands.^(W)
11 I will stop^(X) all her celebrations:^(Y)
    her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
    her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.^(Z)
12 I will ruin her vines^(AA) and her fig trees,^(AB)
    which she said were her pay from her lovers;^(AC)
I will make them a thicket,^(AD)
    and wild animals will devour them.^(AE)
13 I will punish her for the days
    she burned incense^(AF) to the Baals;^(AG)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,^(AH)
    and went after her lovers,^(AI)
    but me she forgot,^(AJ)”
declares the Lord.^(AK)