A Call to Repentance

⁶ The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what ^(A)backsliding Israel has done? She has ^(B)gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

^7 (A)And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous ^(B)sister Judah saw it.

⁸ Then I saw that ^(A)for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had ^(B)put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; ^(C)yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

⁹ So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she ^(A)defiled the land and committed adultery with ^(B)stones and trees.

¹⁰ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me ^(A)with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.