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Jeremiah 3 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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The Polluted Land

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - God [fn]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 [fn]polluted?
But you are a harlot with many [fn]lovers;
Yet you turn to Me,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - “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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:3 - “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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:4 - “Have you not just now called to Me,
‘My Father, You are the [fn]friend of my youth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:5 - ‘Will He be angry forever?
Will He [fn]be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken
And have done evil things,
And you have [fn]had your way.”

Faithless Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - Then 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:7 - “I [fn]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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - “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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - “Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:10 - “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.

God Invites Repentance

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 - And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:12 - “Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say,
‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD;
‘I will not [fn]look upon you in anger.
For I am gracious,’ declares the LORD;
‘I will not be angry forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 - ‘Only [fn]acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the LORD your God
And have scattered your [fn]favors to the strangers under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 - ‘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.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:15 - “Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - “It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - “At that time they will 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 will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - “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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - “Then I said,
‘How I would set you among [fn]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.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:20 - “Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her [fn]lover,
So you have dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:21 - A 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:22 - “Return, O faithless sons,
I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to You;
For You are the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 - “Surely, the hills are a deception,
A tumult on the mountains.
Surely in the LORD our God
Is the salvation of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - “But the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - “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, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: saying
Or, alienated
Literally: companions
Literally: leader
Literally: keep it
Literally: been able
Literally: said
Literally: cause My countenance to fall
Literally: know
Literally: ways
Literally: the
Or, companion
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