Jeremiah 3:6-8

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The Two Bad Sisters: Israel and Judah

⁶ The Lord spoke to me during the time King Josiah was ruling the nation of Judah. He said, “Jeremiah, you saw the bad things Israel^[a] did! You saw how she was unfaithful to me. She was unfaithful to me with every idol on every hill and under every green tree. ⁷ I said to myself, ‘Israel will come back to me after she has finished doing these evil things.’ But she did not come back to me. And Israel’s unfaithful sister, Judah, saw what she did. ⁸ Israel was unfaithful, and she knew why I sent her away. Israel knew that I divorced her because she committed the sin of adultery. But that did not make her unfaithful sister afraid. Judah was not afraid. She also went out and acted like a prostitute.