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Jeremiah 3
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Unfaithful Israel

3The LORD says, "If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to me!H559H376H7971H802H1980H312H376H7725H776H2610H2610H2181H7227H7453H7725H5002H3068
2Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.H5375H5869H8205H7200H375H7693H7901H1870H3427H6163H4057H2610H776H2184H7451
3That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.H7241H4513H4456H2181H802H4696H3985H3637
4"And now you say to me, 'You are my father, and you have loved me ever since I was a child.H7121H1H441H5271
5You won't always be angry; you won't be mad at me forever.' Israel, that is what you said, but you did all the evil you could."H5201H5769H8104H5331H1696H6213H7451H3201

Israel and Judah Must Repent

6When Josiah was king, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what Israel, that unfaithful woman, has done? She has turned away from me, and on every high hill and under every green tree she has acted like a prostitute.H3068H559H3117H2977H4428H7200H4878H3478H6213H1980H1364H2022H8478H7488H6086H2181
7I thought that after she had done all this, she would surely return to me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it all.H559H310H6213H7725H7725H901H269H3063H7200
8Judah also saw that I divorced Israel and sent her away because she had turned from me and had become a prostitute. But Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, was not afraid. She too became a prostituteH7200H182H4878H3478H5003H7971H5414H5612H3748H898H269H3063H3372H3212H2181
9and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees.H6963H2184H2610H776H5003H68H6086
10And after all this, Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, only pretended to return to me; she was not sincere. I, the LORD, have spoken."H901H269H3063H7725H3820H8267H5002H3068
11Then the LORD told me that, even though Israel had turned away from him, she had proved to be better than unfaithful Judah.H3068H559H4878H3478H6663H5315H898H3063
12He told me to go and say to Israel, "Unfaithful Israel, come back to me. I am merciful and will not be angry; I will not be angry with you forever.H1980H7121H1697H6828H559H7725H4878H3478H5002H3068H6440H5307H2623H5002H3068H5201H5769
13Only admit that you are guilty and that you have rebelled against the LORD, your God. Confess that under every green tree you have given your love to foreign gods and that you have not obeyed my commands. I, the LORD, have spoken.H3045H5771H6586H3068H430H6340H1870H2114H7488H6086H8085H6963H5002H3068
14"Unfaithful people, come back; you belong to me. I will take one of you from each town and two from each clan, and I will bring you back to Mount Zion.H7725H7726H1121H5002H3068H1166H3947H259H5892H8147H4940H935H6726
15I will give you rulers who obey me, and they will rule you with wisdom and understanding.H5414H7462H3820H7462H1844H7919
16Then when you have become numerous in that land, people will no longer talk about my Covenant Box. They will no longer think about it or remember it; they will not even need it, nor will they make another one.H7235H6509H776H3117H5002H3068H559H727H1285H3068H5927H3820H2142H6485H6213
17When that time comes, Jerusalem will be called 'The Throne of the LORD,' and all nations will gather there to worship me. They will no longer do what their stubborn and evil hearts tell them.H6256H7121H3389H3678H3068H1471H6960H8034H3068H3389H3212H310H8307H7451H3820
18Israel will join with Judah, and together they will come from exile in the country in the north and will return to the land that I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession."H3117H1004H3063H3212H1004H3478H935H3162H776H6828H776H5157H1

The Idolatry of God’s People

19The LORD says, "Israel, I wanted to accept you as my child and give you a delightful land, the most beautiful land in all the world. I wanted you to call me father and never again turn away from me.H559H7896H1121H5414H2532H776H6643H5159H6635H1471H559H7121H1H7725H310
20But like an unfaithful wife, you have not been faithful to me. I, the LORD, have spoken."H403H802H898H7453H898H1004H3478H5002H3068
21A noise is heard on the hilltops: it is the people of Israel crying and pleading because they have lived sinful lives and have forgotten the LORD their God.H6963H8085H8205H1065H8469H1121H3478H5753H1870H7911H3068H430
22Return, all of you who have turned away from the LORD; he will heal you and make you faithful. You say, "Yes, we are coming to the LORD because he is our God.H7725H7726H1121H7495H4878H857H3068H430
23We were not helped at all by our pagan worship on the hilltops. Help for Israel comes only from the LORD our God.H403H8267H1389H1995H2022H403H3068H430H8668H3478
24But the worship of Baal, the god of shame, has made us lose flocks and herds, sons and daughters - everything that our ancestors have worked for since ancient times.H1322H398H3018H1H5271H6629H1241H1121H1323
25We should lie down in shame and let our disgrace cover us. We and our ancestors have always sinned against the LORD our God; we have never obeyed his commands."H7901H1322H3639H3680H2398H3068H430H1H5271H3117H8085H6963H3068H430


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