3. That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.
4. “And now you say to me, ‘You are my father, and you have loved me ever since I was a child.
5. You won't always be angry; you won't be cross with me for ever.’ Israel, that is what you said, but you did all the evil you could.”
6. When Josiah was king, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what Israel, that unfaithful woman, has done? She has turned away from me, and on every high hill and under every green tree she has acted like a prostitute.