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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 3
3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become
another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly
polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again
to me, says the LORD.
3:2 Lift up your eyes unto the high places, and see where you have
not been lien with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in
the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and
with your wickedness.
3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no
latter rain; and you had a whore's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
3:4 Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the
guide of my youth?
3:5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end?
Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.
3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have
you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up upon every
high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn you unto me.
But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed
adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous
sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
3:9 And it came to pass through the levity of her whoredom, that she
defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned
unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the LORD.
3:11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel has justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return,
you backsliding Israel, says the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger
to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep
anger for ever.
3:13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against
the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under
every green tree, and all of you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.
3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married
unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I
will bring you to Zion:
3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall
feed you with knowledge and understanding.
3:16 And it shall come to pass, when all of you be multiplied and increased
in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more, The
ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither
shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that
be done any more.
3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD;
and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD,
to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of
their evil heart.
3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of
Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the
land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
3:19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you
a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said,
You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.
3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have
all of you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.
3:21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications
of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they
have forgotten the LORD their God.
3:22 Return, all of you backsliding children, and I will heal your
backslidings. Behold, we come unto you; for you are the LORD our God.
3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from
the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation
of Israel.
3:24 For shame has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth;
their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we
have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth
even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
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