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Jeremiah 3:7

Good News Translation (US Version)

I thought that after she had done all this, she would surely return to me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it all.

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“Your older sister, with her villages, is Samaria, in the north. Your younger sister, with her villages, is Sodom, in the south.

Return to the Lord your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

The people of Israel and Judah have betrayed me completely. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

“Lord, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Yet I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed?

“Have you noticed how people are saying that I have rejected Israel and Judah, the two families that I chose? And so they look with contempt on my people and no longer consider them a nation.

Were you satisfied to follow in their footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were acting worse than they were in everything you did.

They insist on turning away from me. They will cry out because of the yoke that is on them, but no one will lift it from them.

Weak with thirst, the people of several cities went to a city where they hoped to find water, but there was not enough to drink. Still you did not come back to me.

The people of Judah have broken their promise to God and done a horrible thing in Jerusalem and all over the country. They have defiled the Temple which the Lord loves. Men have married women who worship foreign gods.

He served his father's God, obeyed God's commands, and did not act the way the kings of Israel did.




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