Jeremiah 3:3-10
New American Standard Bible 1995
3 “Therefore the (A)showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you had a (B)harlot’s forehead;
You refused to be ashamed.
4 “Have you not just now called to Me,
‘(C)My Father, You are the [a](D)friend of my (E)youth?
5 ‘(F)Will He be angry forever?
Will He [b]be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken
And have done evil things,
And you have [c]had your way.”
Faithless Israel
6 Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She (G)went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there. 7 (H)I [d]thought, ‘After she has done all these things she will return to Me’; but she did not return, and her (I)treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and (J)given her a writ of divorce, yet her (K)treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also. 9 Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she (L)polluted the land and committed adultery with (M)stones and trees. 10 Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in (N)deception,” declares the Lord.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Jeremiah 3:4 Lit leader
- Jeremiah 3:5 Lit keep it
- Jeremiah 3:5 Lit been able
- Jeremiah 3:7 Lit said
Jeremiah 23:13-14
New American Standard Bible 1995
13 “Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an (A)offensive thing:
They (B)prophesied by Baal and (C)led My people Israel astray.
14 “Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a (D)horrible thing:
The committing of (E)adultery and walking in falsehood;
And they strengthen the hands of (F)evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become to Me like (G)Sodom,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 32:30-32
New American Standard Bible 1995
30 Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only (A)evil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only (B)provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands,” declares the Lord. 31 “Indeed this city has been to Me a (C)provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be (D)removed from before My face, 32 because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their (E)kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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