Jeremiah 3:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 And I thought: After she has done all this, she will return to me. But she did not return. Then, even though that traitor her sister Judah, saw 8 that, in response to all the adulteries rebel Israel had committed, I sent her away and gave her a bill of divorce, nevertheless Judah, the traitor, her sister, was not frightened; she too went off and played the prostitute.(A) 9 With her casual prostitution, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and wood.(B)
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