World English Bible
"I 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."
— Jeremiah 3:7, World English Bible
“And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.”
“And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. ”
“Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did.”
“And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,”
“And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.”
“And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.”
Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
"'Will he retain [his anger] forever? Will he keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."
Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
I 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.
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.
It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says Yahweh.