^{8 Ref} I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

^{9 Ref} It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

^{10 Ref} Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh.