3 A saying:^[a] ‘Look, if a man divorces his wife,
    and she goes from him and she becomes another man’s wife,^[b]
    will he return to her again?’
Will not that land be greatly defiled?
And you have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
    would you now return to me?” declares^[c] Yahweh.
² “Lift up your eyes at the barren heights,
    and see where you have not been ravished.
Beside the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the desert,^[d]
    and you have defiled the land
with your fornication
    and with your wickedness.
³ Therefore rain showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come.
Yet you have^[e] the forehead of a woman prostitute,
    you refuse to be ashamed.
⁴ Have you not just now called to me,
    ‘My father, you are the close friend of my youth?
⁵ Will he be angry forever?^[f]
    Will he maintain it always’?^[g]
Look, you have spoken,
    but you have done all the evil that you could.”^[h]