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“Lift up your eyes to the (A)bare heights and see;
Where have you not been ravished?
By the roads you have (B)sat for them
Like [a]an Arab in the wilderness,
And you have (C)polluted a land
With your harlotry and with your evil.
Therefore the (D)showers have been withheld,
And the [b]late rain has not [c]come.
Yet you had a (E)harlot’s forehead;
You refused to feel dishonor.
Have you not just now called to Me,
(F)My Father, You are the [d](G)close companion of my (H)youth?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:2 Or a nomad
  2. Jeremiah 3:3 Spring
  3. Jeremiah 3:3 Lit been
  4. Jeremiah 3:4 Lit leader

“Look up to the barren heights(A) and see.
    Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside(B) you sat waiting for lovers,
    sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land(C)
    with your prostitution(D) and wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withheld,(E)
    and no spring rains(F) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen(G) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.(H)
Have you not just called to me:
    ‘My Father,(I) my friend from my youth,(J)

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