Jeremiah 3:7-9

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⁷ I said to myself, ‘Israel will come back to me after she does this evil,’ but she didn’t come back. And Israel’s ·wicked [traitorous; treacherous] sister Judah saw what she did [Ezek. 13; 26]. ⁸ Judah saw that I ·divorced [^Lsent away with a certificate of divorce] unfaithful Israel because of her adultery [^Cin the Assyrian exile of 722 bc], but that didn’t make Israel’s ·wicked [traitorous; treacherous] sister Judah afraid. She also went out and acted like a prostitute! ⁹ And she didn’t care that she was acting like a prostitute. So she made her country ·unclean [defiled; polluted; ^Cin a ritual sense] and was guilty of adultery with stone and wood [^Cby worshiping idols made of these materials].