LEB(i)
1 A ⌊saying⌋:* 'Look, if a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him ⌊and she becomes another man's wife⌋,* 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⌋* 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,* 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⌋* 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⌋?* Will he maintain it ⌊always⌋'?* Look, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could."*
6 Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, "Have you seen what apostate* Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted herself there.
7 And I thought, 'After her doing all these things to me she will return,' but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.*
8 And I saw that ⌊for this very reason, that⌋* on account of apostate* Israel committing adultery I divorced her and gave the letter of divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid and she went and prostituted herself also.
9 And it was because of the frivolity of her fornication that she defiled the land and committed adultery with the stone and with the tree.