Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

3 “If a man divorces his wife
    and she leaves him and marries another man,
should her first husband come back to her again?
    If he went back to her, wouldn’t the land become completely unclean?
But you have acted like a prostitute with many lovers,
    and now you want to come back to me?” says the Lord.
² “Look up to the bare hilltops, Judah.
    Is there any place where you have not been a prostitute?
You have sat by the road waiting for lovers,
    like an Arab in the desert.
You made the land unclean,
    because you did evil and were like a prostitute.
³ So the rain has not come,
    and there have not been any spring rains.
But your face still looks like the face of a prostitute.
    You refuse even to be ashamed of what you did.
⁴ Now you are calling to me,
    ‘My father, you have been my friend since I was young.
⁵ Will you always be angry at me?
    Will your anger last forever?’
Judah, you said this,
    but you did as much evil as you could!”