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Jeremiah 3
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Wages of Apostasy

3If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn't such a land become totally defiled? But you! You have played the prostitute with many partners— can you return to Me? [This is] the LORD's declaration.H559H376H7971H802H1980H312H376H7725H776H2610H2610H2181H7227H7453H7725H5002H3068
2Look to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the highways like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.H5375H5869H8205H7200H375H7693H7901H1870H3427H6163H4057H2610H776H2184H7451
3This is why the showers haven't come— why there has been no spring rain. You have the brazen look of a prostitute and refuse to be ashamed.H7241H4513H4456H2181H802H4696H3985H3637
4Have you not lately called Me: My Father, my youthful companion?H7121H1H441H5271
5Will He bear a grudge forever? Will He be endlessly infuriated? This is what you have spoken and done, the evil you are capable of.H5201H5769H8104H5331H1696H6213H7451H3201

Unfaithful Israel, Treacherous Judah

6In the days of King Josiah the LORD asked me, "Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.H3068H559H3117H2977H4428H7200H4878H3478H6213H1980H1364H2022H8478H7488H6086H2181
7I thought: After she has done all these things, she will return to Me. But she didn't return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.H559H310H6213H7725H7725H901H269H3063H7200
8I observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.H7200H182H4878H3478H5003H7971H5414H5612H3748H898H269H3063H3372H3212H2181
9Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and tree.H6963H2184H2610H776H5003H68H6086
10Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn't return to Me with all her heart— only in pretense." [This is] the LORD's declaration.H901H269H3063H7725H3820H8267H5002H3068
11The LORD announced to me, "Unfaithful Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.H3068H559H4878H3478H6663H5315H898H3063
12Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say: Return, unfaithful Israel. [This is] the LORD's declaration. I will not look on you with anger, for I am unfailing in My love. [This is] the LORD's declaration. I will not be angry forever.H1980H7121H1697H6828H559H7725H4878H3478H5002H3068H6440H5307H2623H5002H3068H5201H5769
13Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H3045H5771H6586H3068H430H6340H1870H2114H7488H6086H8085H6963H5002H3068
14"Return, you faithless children"— [this is] the LORD's declaration— "for I am your master, and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.H7725H7726H1121H5002H3068H1166H3947H259H5892H8147H4940H935H6726
15I will give you shepherds who are loyal to Me, and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill.H5414H7462H3820H7462H1844H7919
16When you multiply and increase in the land, in those days"— the LORD's declaration— "no one will say any longer: The ark of the LORD's covenant. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember or miss it. It will never again be made.H7235H6509H776H3117H5002H3068H559H727H1285H3068H5927H3820H2142H6485H6213
17At that time Jerusalem will be called, The LORD's Throne, and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD in Jerusalem. They will cease to follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.H6256H7121H3389H3678H3068H1471H6960H8034H3068H3389H3212H310H8307H7451H3820
18In those days the house of Judah will join with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land I have given your ancestors to inherit."H3117H1004H3063H3212H1004H3478H935H3162H776H6828H776H5157H1

True Repentance

19I thought: How I long to make you [My] sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations. I thought: You will call Me, my Father, and never turn away from Me.H559H7896H1121H5414H2532H776H6643H5159H6635H1471H559H7121H1H7725H310
20However, as a woman may betray her lover, so you have betrayed Me, house of Israel. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H403H802H898H7453H898H1004H3478H5002H3068
21A sound is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, for they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God.H6963H8085H8205H1065H8469H1121H3478H5753H1870H7911H3068H430
22Return, you faithless children. I will heal your unfaithfulness. "Here we are, coming to You, for You are the LORD our God.H7725H7726H1121H7495H4878H857H3068H430
23Surely, falsehood comes from the hills, commotion from the mountains, but the salvation of Israel is only in the LORD our God.H403H8267H1389H1995H2022H403H3068H430H8668H3478
24From the time of our youth the shameful one has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.H1322H398H3018H1H5271H6629H1241H1121H1323
25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers, from the time of our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."H7901H1322H3639H3680H2398H3068H430H1H5271H3117H8085H6963H3068H430


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