A Call to Repentance

⁶ The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?^{(A) 7} And I thought, “After she has done all this she will return to me,” but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.^{(B) 8} She^[a] saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.^{(C) 9} Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.^{(D) 10} Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.^(E)