Jeremiah 3:1-2, 8-10

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.

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.  Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart   — only in pretense.” This is the LORD’s declaration.