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 such a land be greatly polluted?
You have played the whore with many lovers;
    and would you return to me?
says the Lord.
² Look up to the bare heights,^[b] and see!
    Where have you not been lain with?
By the waysides you have sat waiting for lovers,
    like a nomad in the wilderness.
You have polluted the land
    with your whoring and wickedness.
³ Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have the forehead of a whore,
    you refuse to be ashamed.
⁴ Have you not just now called to me,
    ‘My Father, you are the friend of my youth—
⁵ will he be angry for ever,
    will he be indignant to the end?’
This is how you have spoken,
    but you have done all the evil that you could.