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Jeremiah 3:2-4
International Standard Version
Jeremiah 3:2-4
International Standard Version
2 “Look up to the barren heights and see.
Is there any place[a] where you have not been ravished?
You have sat beside the road, waiting[b] for them[c]
like a nomad in the desert.
And you have polluted the land
with your fornication and your wickedness.
3 This is why the rain has been withheld
and there are no spring showers.
Yet you have a harlot’s look[d]
and you refuse to be ashamed.
4 Have you not just called out to me,
‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 3:2 The Heb. lacks Is there anyplace
- Jeremiah 3:2 The Heb. lacks waiting
- Jeremiah 3:2 I.e. as if waiting for a prostitute
- Jeremiah 3:3 Lit. forehead
International Standard Version (ISV)
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