Bible verse
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
Jeremiah 3:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 3.
5 Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
6 Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
7 I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
8 She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
9 Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
10 Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
11 And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
12 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
13 Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
KJV
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
ASV
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
ERV
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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