"'Look at the shrines on every hilltop.
Is there any place you have not been defiled
by your adultery with other gods?
You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a customer.
You sit alone like a nomad in the desert.
You have polluted the land with your prostitution
and your wickedness.
That's why even the spring rains have failed.
For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.
Yet you say to me,
"Father, you have been my guide since my youth.
Surely you won't be angry forever!
Surely you can forget about it!"
So you talk,
but you keep on doing all the evil you can.'"
Is there any place you have not been defiled
by your adultery with other gods?
You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a customer.
You sit alone like a nomad in the desert.
You have polluted the land with your prostitution
and your wickedness.
That's why even the spring rains have failed.
For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.
Yet you say to me,
"Father, you have been my guide since my youth.
Surely you won't be angry forever!
Surely you can forget about it!"
So you talk,
but you keep on doing all the evil you can.'"
The people called God "Father" and said he was their guide "since youth," but it was not so! They were sinning in many ways, and at the root was idolatry—looking to something other than God to meet their needs. Though the people were sinning grievously, to them it was a little thing, something surely God would forget about. We tend to minimize sin. Our only true perspective of what's sinful is God's Word. What is it saying to you about any area where you're trusting "other gods" rather than the God?
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