⁵ Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
    your faithfulness^(A) to the skies.^(B)
6 Your righteousness^(C) is like the highest mountains,^(D)
    your justice like the great deep.^(E)
    You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.^(F)
7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!^(G)
    People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.^(H)
8 They feast on the abundance of your house;^(I)
    you give them drink from your river^(J) of delights.^(K)
9 For with you is the fountain of life;^(L)
    in your light^(M) we see light.

¹⁰ Continue your love^(N) to those who know you,^(O)
    your righteousness to the upright in heart.^(P)

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.”