Jer 3:6-8, 11-14, 5:6, 8:5, Hos 4:16, 11:7, 14:1, Zec 7:11 | ESV | STEP | The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah : Have you seen what she did , that faithless one , Israel , how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree , and there played the whore ?

6 The Lord said to me in the days of ^aKing Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, ^bhow she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there ^cplayed the whore? 7 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous ^dsister Judah saw it. 8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, ^eI had sent her away with ^fa decree of divorce. ^gYet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went ^hand played the whore.

Jeremiah 3:11-14

11 And the Lord said to me, ⁱ“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward ^jthe north, and say,

^k“‘Return, faithless Israel,

declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for ^lI am merciful,

declares the Lord;
^mI will not be angry forever.
13 ⁿOnly acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under ^oevery green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,

declares the Lord.
14 ^pReturn, O faithless children,

declares the Lord;
^qfor I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 5:6

6 Therefore ^ra lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a ^swolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^tA leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their ^uapostasies are great.

Jeremiah 8:5

5 Why then has this people ^vturned away
in perpetual ^wbacksliding?
^xThey hold fast to deceit;
they refuse to return.

Hosea 4:16

16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Hosea 11:7

7 My people are bent ^yon turning away from me,
and though ^zthey call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.

Hosea 14:1

A Plea to Return to the Lord

1 ^aaReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for ^abyou have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Zechariah 7:11

11 But ^acthey refused to pay attention ^adand turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear. ^{▼▼Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear}