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Jeremiah 3:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.

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But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, living at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.

My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.




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