Jeremiah 3:1-5

GOD’S WORD Translation

3 A saying:

If a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him and marries another man,
her first husband shouldn’t go back to her again.
The land would become thoroughly polluted.
“You have acted like a prostitute who has many lovers.
And now you want to come back to me!” declares the Lord.

²“Look at the bare hills, and see.
You have had sex with men in every place.
You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert.
You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
³So the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers.
Yet, you have the shameless look of a prostitute,
and you refuse to blush.
⁴But now you are calling to me.
You say, ‘Father! You have been my companion
ever since I was young.
⁵He won’t hold a grudge forever.
He won’t always be angry.’
You have said and done all the evil things that you could.”