Jeremiah 3:5-7

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⁵You also said, ‘God will not always be angry with me.
His anger will not continue forever.’

“Judah, you say that,
but you do as much evil as you can.”

The Two Bad Sisters: Israel and Judah

⁶The Lord spoke to me during the time King Josiah was ruling the nation of Judah. He said, “Jeremiah, you saw the bad things Israel^[a] did! You saw how she was unfaithful to me. She was unfaithful to me with every idol on every hill and under every green tree. ⁷I said to myself, ‘Israel will come back to me after she has finished doing these evil things.’ But she did not come back to me. And Israel’s unfaithful sister, Judah, saw what she did.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 3:6 Israel Here, the name Israel means the northern kingdom of Israel. Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians about 100 years before Jeremiah’s time.