“Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.”
Jeremiah 3:9 (WEB)
Context Reading
7I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute. 9Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood. 10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh. 11Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.