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Jeremiah 3:5-7
EasyEnglish Bible
Jeremiah 3:5-7
EasyEnglish Bible
5 Surely you will not always be angry with me!
You cannot continue to be angry for ever.”
Those are the things that you say.
But you continue to do as many evil things as you can.’
6 The Lord spoke to me while Josiah was king of Judah. He said,
‘Look at what the Israelites have done. They have not been faithful to me. They have worshipped other gods under every big tree and on every high hill. Israel has been like a wife who is not faithful to her husband. 7 I thought that one day she would come back to me. But she did not return. Israel's sister, Judah, saw what Israel did.[a]
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- 3:7 Israel was the kingdom in the north that had already gone away into exile. Judah was the kingdom in the south, with Jerusalem as its capital city. God was warning Judah that the same thing would happen to its people as had happened to Israel's people. He speaks about them as wives who have not been faithful to him. That is why he talks about each of the two kingdoms as ‘she’.
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