Parallel Bible results for "jeremiah 3:3-13"

Jeremiah 3:3-13

NRSA

NIV

3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore, you refuse to be ashamed.
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 now called to me, "My Father, you are the friend of my youth—
4 Have you not just called to me: ‘My Father, my friend from my youth,
5 will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?" This is how you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.
5 will you always be angry? Will your wrath continue forever?’ This is how you talk, but you do all the evil you can.”
6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and played the whore there?
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 And I thought, "After she has done all this she will return to me"; but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.
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 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
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 she took her whoredom so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
9 Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
10 Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says the Lord.
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 Then the Lord said to me: Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.
11 The LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, faithless Israel, says the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, says the Lord; I will not be angry forever.
12 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “ ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will not be angry forever.
13 Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the Lord your God, and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.
13 Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’ ” declares the LORD.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.