Jeremiah 3:3-10
Read Jeremiah 3 in full →3“Therefore the ashowers have been withheld,And the 1late rain has not 2come.Yet you had a bharlot’s forehead;You refused to feel dishonor.4“Have you not just now called to Me,‘aMy Father, You are the 1,bclose companion of my cyouth?5‘aWill He be angry forever?Will He keep it to the end?’Behold, you have spokenAnd have done evil things,And you have 1had your way.”
Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
6Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She awent up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there. 7“aI said, ‘After she has done all these things, she will return to Me’; but she did not return, and her btreacherous sister Judah saw it. 8“And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and agiven her a certificate of divorce, yet her btreacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also. 9“So it was, because of the lightness of her harlotry, that she apolluted the land and committed adultery with bstones and trees. 10“Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in alying,” declares Yahweh.