Jeremiah 3:1-11

1 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?” declares the LORD.
2 “Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.
4 Have you not just called to me: ‘My Father, my friend from my youth,
5 will you always be angry? Will your wrath continue forever?’ This is how you talk, but you do all the evil you can.”

Unfaithful Israel

6 During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.
7 I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
8 I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.
9 Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
11 The LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

Cross References 34

  • 1. Deuteronomy 24:1-4
  • 2. S Genesis 3:17
  • 3. S 2 Kings 16:7; S Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 2:20,25; Jeremiah 4:30; Lamentations 1:2; Ezekiel 16:26,29; Hosea 2:5,12; Hosea 3:1
  • 4. Hosea 2:7
  • 5. ver 21
  • 6. Genesis 38:14; Ezekiel 16:25
  • 7. ver 9; Jeremiah 2:7
  • 8. S Numbers 15:39; S Isaiah 1:21
  • 9. Leviticus 26:19; Jeremiah 5:25; Amos 4:7
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 11:14; Jeremiah 14:4; Joel 1:10
  • 11. Ezekiel 3:7; Ezekiel 16:30
  • 12. Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 8:12; Zephaniah 2:1; Zephaniah 3:5
  • 13. ver 19; S Deuteronomy 32:6; S Psalms 89:26; Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 31:9
  • 14. S Jeremiah 2:2
  • 15. S Psalms 103:9; S Isaiah 54:9; Isaiah 57:16
  • 16. S 1 Chronicles 3:14
  • 17. ver 12,22; S Isaiah 24:16; Jeremiah 31:22; Jeremiah 49:4
  • 18. S Deuteronomy 12:2; Jeremiah 17:2; Ezekiel 20:28; Hosea 4:13
  • 19. S Leviticus 17:7; Jeremiah 2:20
  • 20. Ezekiel 16:46; Ezekiel 23:2,11
  • 21. Amos 4:8
  • 22. Jeremiah 11:10
  • 23. S Deuteronomy 4:27; S Deuteronomy 24:1
  • 24. Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 23:11
  • 25. ver 2
  • 26. S Leviticus 17:7; S Isaiah 1:21
  • 27. S Isaiah 57:6
  • 28. Jeremiah 2:27
  • 29. Isaiah 31:6; Amos 4:9; Haggai 2:17
  • 30. Jeremiah 12:2; Ezekiel 33:31
  • 31. S 2 Kings 17:19
  • 32. Ezekiel 16:52; Ezekiel 23:11
  • 33. ver 7
  • 34. S Jeremiah 2:19
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