Jeremiah 3:7-9

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⁷ And I thought, “After she has done all this she will return to me,” but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.^{(A) 8} She^[a] saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.^{(B) 9} Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.^(C)