11Yahweh said to me, |Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
11Yahweh said to me, |Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
8 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 It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,| says Yahweh.
11 Yahweh said to me, |Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep anger forever.
13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says Yahweh.|
3:11And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
3:11The Lord said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
3:11And the Lord said to me: The rebellious Israel hath justified her soul, in comparison of the treacherous Juda.
3:11And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
3:11And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah.
3:11And the LORD said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
3:11And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
3:11And Jehovah saith unto me: 'Justified herself hath backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah.
3:11And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.