And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,
Rashi
And I said through My prophets, Amos and Hosea son of Beeri and the other prophets, “You shall return to Me.”
And her treacherous sister Judah saw it i.e., saw all this. The appellation “treacherous” is harsher than “backsliding.” Israel, since they were the first to sin, and they did not see any retribution from which to learn and to repent, are called “backsliding.” Judah, who saw that these went in exile and did not receive correction, are called “treacherous.”
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.