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20 “For long ago [a](A)I broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every (B)high hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:20 Or you

25 Keep your feet from being barefoot
And your throat from thirst;
But you said, ‘(A)It is [a]hopeless!
No! For I have (B)loved strangers,
And after them I will walk.’

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  1. Jeremiah 2:25 Or desperate

“Lift up your eyes to the (A)bare heights and see;
Where have you not been ravished?
By the roads you have (B)sat for them
Like [a]an Arab in the wilderness,
And you have (C)polluted a land
With your harlotry and with your evil.

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  1. Jeremiah 3:2 Or a nomad

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She (A)went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

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