5. Shall He reserve His anger forever?Shall He keep it to the end?”Indeed, you have spokenand done evil things as you could.
6. The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
7. I said after she had done all these things, “Turn to Me.” But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8. I saw that for all the adulteries of backsliding Israel, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
9. Through the lightness of her harlotry she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and with trees.