Jeremiah 3:6–11

⁶And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, ‘Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there. ⁷And I say, after her doing all these, Unto Me thou dost turn back, and she hath not turned back, and see it doth her treacherous sister Judah. ⁸And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication—she also. ⁹And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood. ¹⁰And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.’ ¹¹And Jehovah saith unto me: ‘Justified herself hath backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah.