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Read Jeremiah 3

World English Bible · 25 verses

¹ “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ “‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ “Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says Yahweh, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of Yahweh’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ “But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ “Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org