A land without spring rain

1Yahweh declares: “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, would he take her back again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? Yet you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you return to me?”

2Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not lain with lovers? You sat by the roads waiting for them, like an Arab lying in wait in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and your wickedness.

3Therefore the showers were withheld, and there was no spring rain; yet you had the brazen face of a prostitute—you refused to be ashamed.

4Have you not just now called to me, ‘My Father, you are the friend of my youth’?

5‘Will he stay angry forever? Will he hold on to his anger for all time?’ Look, you have said this, but you have done all the evil you could.