Jeremiah 3:1-2, 6-9

If  a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her?  Wouldn’t such a land  become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners   — can you return to me?  This is the  LORD’s declaration. Look to the barren heights  and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the highways  like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

In the days of King Josiah the LORD asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.  I thought, ‘After she has done all these things, she will return to me.’ But she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah  saw it. I  observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce.  Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.  Indifferent to  her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones  and trees.