5. Why should you be angry unceasingly? And will you continue in this to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil, for you were able to do so."
6. And, in the days of king Josiah, the Lord said to me: "Have you not seen what the apostate Israel has done? She has brought herself up to every lofty mountain, and she has lain down under every leafy tree, and she has committed fornication there.
7. And when she had done all these things, I said: 'Return to me.' But she did not return. And her deceitful sister Judah saw this:
8. that because the apostate Israel had committed adultery, I had dismissed her and had given her a bill of divorce. Yet her deceitful sister Judah was not afraid. But she, too, went and committed fornication herself.
9. And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.
10. And after all these things, her deceitful sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but with lies, says the Lord."
11. And the Lord said to me: "The apostate Israel has justified her own soul by comparing herself to the deceitful Judah.
12. Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and you shall say: Return, O apostate Israel, says the Lord. For I will not avert my face from you. For I am holy, says the Lord, and I will not be angry forever.
13. So then, truly acknowledge your iniquity, that you have betrayed the Lord your God, and that you have spread your ways to strangers, under every leafy tree, and that you have not listened to my voice, says the Lord.