Jeremiah 3:3–10

³So the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. 

Yet, you have the shameless look of a prostitute, 

and you refuse to blush. 

⁴But now you are calling to me. 

You say, ‘Father! You have been my companion 

ever since I was young. 

⁵He won’t hold a grudge forever. 

He won’t always be angry.’ 

You have said and done all the evil things that you could.” 

The Lord Offers to Forgive the Ten Tribes of Israel despite Their Idolatry

⁶When Josiah was king, the Lord asked me, “Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there. ⁷I thought that after she had done all this that she would come back to me. But she didn’t come back, and her treacherous sister Judah saw her. ⁸Judah saw that I sent unfaithful Israel away because of her adultery and that I gave Israel her divorce papers. But treacherous Judah, her sister, wasn’t afraid. She also acted like a prostitute. ⁹Because she wasn’t concerned about acting like a prostitute, she polluted the land and committed adultery with standing stones and wood pillars. ¹⁰Even after all this, Israel’s treacherous sister Judah didn’t wholeheartedly come back to me.She was deceitful,” declares the Lord.