Israel and Judah compared

6And the LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there she prostituted herself.”

7And I said, ‘After she had done all these things, she will return to me,’ but she did not return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

8And I saw that because backsliding Israel had committed adultery in all these matters, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and prostituted herself.

9And because of the lightness of her prostitution, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

10Yet in spite of all this, faithless Judah, her sister did not return to me with all her heart, but only in falsehood, declares Yahweh.