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Jeremiah 3:5-7
Lexham English Bible
Jeremiah 3:5-7
Lexham English Bible
5 Will he be angry forever?[a]
Will he maintain it always’?[b]
Look, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.”[c]
Yahweh Gives Israel a Letter of Divorce
6 Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, “Have you seen what apostate[d] Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted herself there. 7 And I thought, ‘After her doing all these things to me she will return,’ but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.[e]
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- Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “to eternity”
- Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “to duration”
- Jeremiah 3:5 Literally “you have done the evil and you were able”
- Jeremiah 3:6 Or “unfaithful”
- Jeremiah 3:7 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
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