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Will he be angry forever?[a]
    Will he maintain it always’?[b]
Look, you have spoken,
    but you have done all the evil that you could.”[c]

Yahweh Gives Israel a Letter of Divorce

Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, “Have you seen what apostate[d] Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted herself there. And I thought, ‘After her doing all these things to me she will return,’ but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “to eternity”
  2. Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “to duration”
  3. Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “you have done the evil and you were able”
  4. Jeremiah 3:6 Or “unfaithful”
  5. Jeremiah 3:7 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

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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