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Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what the apostate Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.

And after she had done all these, I said, She will return to Me; but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

And I watched. When for all the causes for which the apostate Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and I gave the writ of her divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and fornicated.

And it happened, from the wantonness of her harlotry she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with pieces of wood.

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, says Jehovah.