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Have you not just called out to me,
    ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
will he hold on to his anger forever,
    will he persist in his wrath to the end?’
Look, you have spoken and done evil things,
    and you have succeeded in it.”[a]

The Example of Samaria

In the time of King Josiah the Lord told me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she committed fornication there.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:5 The Heb. lacks in it

Have you not just called to me:
    ‘My Father,(A) my friend from my youth,(B)
will you always be angry?(C)
    Will your wrath continue forever?’
This is how you talk,
    but you do all the evil you can.”

Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(D) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(E) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(F) and has committed adultery(G) there.

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