And I said, when she had done all this, Turn thou unto me: but she returned not, as her rebellious sister Judah saw.

When I saw, how that by all occasions rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I cast [a]her away, and gave her a bill of divorcement: yet her rebellious sister Judah was not afraid, but she went also and played the harlot.

So that for the [b]lightness of her whoredom she hath even defiled the land: for she hath committed fornication with stones and stocks.

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Notas al pie

  1. Jeremiah 3:8 And gave her into the hands of the Assyrians.
  2. Jeremiah 3:9 The Hebrew word may either signify lightness, and wantonness, or noise and brute.

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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