But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your evil; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
They say, If a man sends away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you fornicate with many lovers; yet would you come back to Me, a statement of Jehovah.
in that you have built your mound in the head of every highway, and you have made your high place in every open place; yet you have not been as one prostituting, even scorning hire.
They give a gift to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all the ones loving you, and bribe them to come to you from all around for your fornication.
And I passed by you, and I looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.
For they have done adultery, and blood is on their hands. Yea, they have done adultery with their idols, and even their sons whom they bore to Me, they cause to pass to them to be devoured.
And as righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who pour out blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Strive! Strive with your mother, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Therefore, let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,
And Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman loved by a friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods, and love raisin cakes of grapes.
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever purposes to be a friend of the world is put down as a hostile one to God.