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7-8 I knew that the kingdom of Israel had been unfaithful and committed many sins, yet I still hoped she might come back to me. But she didn't, so I divorced her and sent her away.

Her sister, the kingdom of Judah, saw what happened, but she wasn't worried in the least, and I watched her become unfaithful like her sister. The kingdom of Judah wasn't sorry for being a prostitute, and she didn't care that she had made both herself and the land unclean by worshiping idols of stone and wood.

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I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister(A) Judah saw it.(B) I gave faithless Israel(C) her certificate of divorce(D) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;(E) she also went out and committed adultery. Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land(F) and committed adultery(G) with stone(H) and wood.(I)

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