Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 3:9
A church father on this verse
“Let us now proceed to consider the mode of his loving discipline, with the aid of the prophetic testimony. Admonition, then, is loving care's censure and produces understanding. Such is Christ the Educator in his admonitions, as when he says in the Gospel, "How often would I have gathered your children, as a bird gath…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
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7And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Judah saw her faithlessness.
8And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement), yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.
— Jeremiah 3:9 —
10And for all these things faithless Judah turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.
11And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless Judah.