Eternal One: I have loved you as someone loves his dear family. Israelites: How have You loved us? Eternal One: Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? Even still I loved Jacob,

First of all, Judah has acted deceitfully, and an atrocity has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem because Judah has soiled the holy place of the Eternal One—His earthly throne which He loves—by marrying a daughter of a foreign god, by joining pagan families and worshiping pagan goddesses.