50:1 This is what the Lord says:
“Where is your mother’s divorce certificate
by which I divorced her?
Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? 1
Look, you were sold because of your sins; 2
because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother. 3
3:6 When Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. 4 You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods. 5 3:7 Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. 6 But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did. 7 3:8 She also saw 8 that I gave wayward Israel her divorce papers and sent her away because of her adulterous worship of other gods. 9 Even after her unfaithful sister Judah had seen this, 10 she still was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods. 11