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Jeremiah 3
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The Polluted Land

3[God] says, "If a husband divorces his wife, And she goes from him, And belongs to another man, Will he still return to her? Will not that land be completely polluted? But you are a harlot [with] many lovers; Yet you turn to Me," declares the LORD.H559H376H7971H802H1980H312H376H7725H776H2610H2610H2181H7227H7453H7725H5002H3068 2"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness.H5375H5869H8205H7200H375H7693H7901H1870H3427H6163H4057H2610H776H2184H7451 3"Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed.H7241H4513H4456H2181H802H4696H3985H3637 4"Have you not just now called to Me, 'My Father, Thou art the friend of my youth?H7121H1H441H5271 5'Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your way. "H5201H5769H8104H5331H1696H6213H7451H3201

Faithless Israel

6Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.H3068H559H3117H2977H4428H7200H4878H3478H6213H1980H1364H2022H8478H7488H6086H2181 7"And I thought, 'After she has done all these things, she will return to Me'; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.H559H310H6213H7725H7725H901H269H3063H7200 8"And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.H7200H182H4878H3478H5003H7971H5414H5612H3748H898H269H3063H3372H3212H2181 9"And it came about because of the lightness of her harlotry, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.H6963H2184H2610H776H5003H68H6086 10"And yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in deception," declares the LORD.H901H269H3063H7725H3820H8267H5002H3068

God Invites Repentance

11And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.H3068H559H4878H3478H6663H5315H898H3063 12"Go, and proclaim these words toward the north and say, 'Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD; 'I will not look upon you in anger. For I am gracious,' declares the LORD; 'I will not be angry forever.H1980H7121H1697H6828H559H7725H4878H3478H5002H3068H6440H5307H2623H5002H3068H5201H5769 13'Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the LORD your God And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,' declares the LORD.H3045H5771H6586H3068H430H6340H1870H2114H7488H6086H8085H6963H5002H3068 14'Return, O faithless sons,' declares the LORD; 'For I am a master to you, And I will take you one from a city and two from a family, And I will bring you to Zion.'H7725H7726H1121H5002H3068H1166H3947H259H5892H8147H4940H935H6726 15"Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.H5414H7462H3820H7462H1844H7919 16"And it shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land," declares the LORD, "they shall say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' And it shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they miss [it,] nor shall it be made again.H7235H6509H776H3117H5002H3068H559H727H1285H3068H5927H3820H2142H6485H6213 17"At that time they shall call Jerusalem 'The Throne of the LORD,' and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the LORD; nor shall they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.H6256H7121H3389H3678H3068H1471H6960H8034H3068H3389H3212H310H8307H7451H3820 18"In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.H3117H1004H3063H3212H1004H3478H935H3162H776H6828H776H5157H1 19"Then I said, 'How I would set you among My sons, And give you a pleasant land, The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!' And I said, ' You shall call Me, My Father, And not turn away from following Me. 'H559H7896H1121H5414H2532H776H6643H5159H6635H1471H559H7121H1H7725H310 20"Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her lover, So you have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD.H403H802H898H7453H898H1004H3478H5002H3068 21A voice is heard on the bare heights, The weeping [and] the supplications of the sons of Israel; Because they have perverted their way, They have forgotten the LORD their God.H6963H8085H8205H1065H8469H1121H3478H5753H1870H7911H3068H430 22"Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to Thee; For Thou art the LORD our God.H7725H7726H1121H7495H4878H857H3068H430 23"Surely, the hills are a deception, A tumult [on] the mountains. Surely, in the LORD our God Is the salvation of Israel.H403H8267H1389H1995H2022H403H3068H430H8668H3478 24"But the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.H1322H398H3018H1H5271H6629H1241H1121H1323 25"Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, since our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."H7901H1322H3639H3680H2398H3068H430H1H5271H3117H8085H6963H3068H430


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