Jeremiah 3:3-10

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“Therefore the ^(A)showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you had a ^(B)harlot’s forehead;
You refused to be ashamed.

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“Have you not just now called to Me,
‘^(C)My Father, You are the ^(a)^(D)friend of my ^(E)youth?

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‘^(F)Will He be angry forever?
Will He ^(b)be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken
And have done evil things,
And you have ^(c)had your way.”

Faithless Israel

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6} Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She ^(G)went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there. ^{Tools
7} ^(H)I ^(d)thought, ‘After she has done all these things she will return to Me’; but she did not return, and her ^(I)treacherous sister Judah saw it. ^{Tools
8} And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and ^(J)given her a writ of divorce, yet her ^(K)treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also. ^{Tools
9} Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she ^(L)polluted the land and committed adultery with ^(M)stones and trees. ^{Tools
10} Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in ^(N)deception,” declares the Lord.

Footnotes:

a. Jeremiah 3:4: ['Lit ', leader]

b. Jeremiah 3:5: ['Lit ', keep it]

c. Jeremiah 3:5: ['Lit ', been able]

d. Jeremiah 3:7: ['Lit ', said]

Cross references:

A. Jeremiah 3:3: Leviticus 26:19; Jeremiah 14:3-6

B. Jeremiah 3:3: Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 8:12

C. Jeremiah 3:4: Jeremiah 3:19; Jeremiah 31:9

D. Jeremiah 3:4: Psalm 71:17; Proverbs 2:17

E. Jeremiah 3:4: Jeremiah 2:2; Hosea 2:15

F. Jeremiah 3:5: Psalm 103:9; Isaiah 57:16; Jeremiah 3:12

G. Jeremiah 3:6: Jeremiah 17:2; Ezekiel 23:4-10

I. Jeremiah 3:7: Jeremiah 3:11; Ezekiel 16:47

J. Jeremiah 3:8: Deuteronomy 24:1; Deuteronomy 24:3; Isaiah 50:1

K. Jeremiah 3:8: Ezekiel 16:46; Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 23:11

L. Jeremiah 3:9: Jeremiah 2:7; Jeremiah 3:2

M. Jeremiah 3:9: Isaiah 57:6; Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 10:8

N. Jeremiah 3:10: Jeremiah 12:2; Hosea 7:14