Yermeyah (Jeremiah) 3:6–10 — Yehudah is also unfaithful

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3:6 Yehudah is also unfaithful

Southern kingdom

6 At the time when Yoshiyah (Josiah) was king of Yehudah (Judah),[ref] Yahweh asked me, “Do you see what faithless Yisrael (Israel) has done? She herself has walked up every high hill, and has been a prostitute underneath every green tree. 7 However I thought that after she’d done all those things, she’d return to me, but she hasn’t, and her treacherous sister, Yehudah, saw her. 8 So I saw that because of all those situations where faithless Yisrael had committed adultery, I had given her divorce notice to her and sent her away. But her sister Yehudah, acting treacherously, wasn’t worried and she went out and also prostituted herself. 9 Because she took her prostitution lightly, the nation became immoral and committed adultery with standing stones and trees. 10 Then after all that, that treacherous sister Yehudah didn’t return to me with sincerity, but with deception. That is Yahweh’s declaration.

3:6: 2Ki 22:1–23:30; 2Ch 34:1–35:27.

6 And_ YHWH _he/it _said to_me in_the _days _of Yoʼshiy^yāh/(Josiah) the_king have_you _seen that_which the_apostate _one Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) she _has _done she has _been_going on every _of hill high and_near/to under every _of tree luxuriant and_she _has _acted _as _a _prostitute there.

7 And_I _thought after she_has _done DOM all _of these_things to_me she _will _return and_not she _has _returned and[fn] treacherous sister _of_her Yəhūdāh/(Judah).

8 And_I _saw if/because _that on all _of causes that the_apostate _one Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) she _committed _adultery I_sent _her _away and_I _gave DOM the _document _of her _divorce(s)_of_her to_her/it and_not treacherous Yəhūdāh sister _of_her she _was _afraid and_she _went and_she _acted _as _a _prostitute also she.

9 And_it _was from_the _lightness _of her _prostitution _of_her and_it _was _polluted DOM the_earth/land and_she _committed _adultery DOM (the)_stone and_DOM the_tree.

10 And_also in_all this not she _returned to_me treacherous sister _of_her Yəhūdāh in_all her/its_heart if/because (if) with_deception the _utterance _of YHWH.

3:7 OSHB variant note: ו/תראה: (x-qere) ’וַ/תֵּ֛רֶא’: lemma=c/7200 n=0.0.0 morph=HC/Vqw3fs id=24Cdg וַ/תֵּ֛רֶא

OET by section YIR (JER) 3:6

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