5. Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldst.
6. The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
7. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8. And I saw, when for all the causes by which backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.