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Have you not just now called to me,
    ‘My father, you are the close friend of my youth?
Will he be angry forever?[a]
    Will he maintain it always’?[b]
Look, you have spoken,
    but you have done all the evil that you could.”[c]

Yahweh Gives Israel a Letter of Divorce

Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, “Have you seen what apostate[d] Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted herself there.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “to eternity”
  2. Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “to duration”
  3. Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “you have done the evil and you were able”
  4. Jeremiah 3:6 Or “unfaithful”