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Will He reserve His anger l’olam? Will He keep it lanetzach? Hinei, this is what you preach, but you practice all hara’ot (the evils) you can.

Hashem said also unto me in the days of Yoshiyah HaMelech, Hast thou seen that which meshuvah Yisroel (backsliding Yisroel) hath done? She is gone up upon every high hill and under every green tree, and there hath played the zonah.

And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto Me. But she returned not. And her treacherous achot Yehudah saw it [i.e., saw Israel’s refusal to renounce fertility cult idolatry].

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will you always be angry?(A)
    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,(B) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(C) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(D) and has committed adultery(E) there. I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister(F) Judah saw it.(G)

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