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The Israelites are not faithful to God

The Lord says this:

‘If a man sends his wife away,
    she may leave him and marry another man.
Then her first husband may not take her as his wife again.
    That would be a sin against the land where you live.[a]
But you have left me to live with other gods.
You have lived like a prostitute,
    but you still think that you can return to me.
Look up at the tops of the hills.
    You have loved other gods on all of them!
You sat by the side of the road,
    and you waited for a lover to come.
Like a robber, you waited to catch men
    so that you could sleep with them.
You have not been faithful to me,
    but you have looked for other gods, like a prostitute.
The wicked things that you have done
    have made the land unclean.
That is why I have not sent any rain on your land.
    Even the spring rains have not come.
But you still live like a proud prostitute.

You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:1 See Deuteronomy 24:1-4

“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.
“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.
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)

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