3 If^[a] a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him to marry another,
can he ever return to her?^(A)
Wouldn’t such a land^[b] become totally defiled?
But you!
You have prostituted yourself with many partners^(B)—
can you return to me?^(C)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
² Look to the barren heights^(D) and see.
Where have you not been immoral?
You sat waiting for them beside the highways^(E)
like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.^(F)
3 This is why the showers haven’t come^(G)—
why there has been no spring rain.
You have the brazen look^(H) of a prostitute^[c]
and refuse to be ashamed.^(I)

²³ But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.^(A)
They have turned aside and have gone away.
²⁴ They have not said to themselves,
‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,^(B)
who gives the seasonal rains, both autumn and spring,^(C)
who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
²⁵ Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,^(D)