Yet (A)I [a]thought, ‘After she has done all these things she will return to Me’; but she did not return, and her (B)treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw that for all the [b]adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and (C)given her a certificate of divorce, yet her (D)treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and prostituted herself also. And because of the thoughtlessness of her prostitution, she (E)defiled the land and committed [c]adultery with (F)stones and trees.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:7 Lit said
  2. Jeremiah 3:8 I.e., idolatry
  3. Jeremiah 3:9 I.e., idolatry

I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister(A) Judah saw it.(B) I gave faithless Israel(C) her certificate of divorce(D) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;(E) she also went out and committed adultery. Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land(F) and committed adultery(G) with stone(H) and wood.(I)

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