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You call me your father
    or your long-lost friend;
you beg me to stop being angry,
    but you won't stop sinning.

The Lord Asks Israel To Come Back to Him

(A) When Josiah[a] was king, the Lord said:

Jeremiah, the kingdom of Israel[b] was like an unfaithful wife who became a prostitute on the hilltops and in the shade of large trees.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 3.6 Josiah: Ruled 640–609 b.c.
  2. 3.6 Israel: The northern kingdom (see the note at 2.4).
  3. 3.6 prostitute … trees: See the note at 2.20.

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