Jeremiah 3:2-4

Common English Bible

² Look to the well-traveled paths^[a] and see!
    Where haven’t you committed adultery?
On the roadsides you sit in wait for lovers,
    like a nomad in the wilderness.
You have corrupted the land
    with your cheap and reckless behavior.
³ That’s why the showers have failed
    and the spring rains have ceased.
Still you act like a brazen prostitute^[b]
    who refuses to blush.
⁴ At the same time you say to me,
    “My father, my friend since youth,