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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Jeremiah 3</title><link rel="canonical" href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/3.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/1500-3ch.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 850px), only screen and (max-device-width: 850px)" href="/850-ch.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/500s.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h450.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="40" scrolling="no" src="/mm/jeremiah/3-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div id="fx3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx4"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="51" scrolling="no" src="/homescreen.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="79" scrolling="no" src="//mbible.com/cm/jeremiah/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//bibleapps.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/">Jeremiah</a> > Chapter 3</div><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/jeremiah/2.htm" title="Jeremiah 2">◄</a> Jeremiah 3 <a href="/jeremiah/4.htm" title="Jeremiah 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">American Standard Version</div>The Polluted Land <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-3.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-4.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-5.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">5Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.</a> Israel's and Judah's Unfaithfulness <a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">6Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-7.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">7And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">8And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-10.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">10And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah.</a> Invitation to Repentance <a href="/jeremiah/3-11.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">11And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-12.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">12Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep anger for ever.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-13.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-14.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">14Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-15.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">15and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-16.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">16And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-17.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-18.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">18In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-19.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">19But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-20.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">20Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">21A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-22.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">22Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-23.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">23Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-24.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">24But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-25.htm" style="color:#001320; text-decoration:none">25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.</a> <a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible © 2012, Used by Permission</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Outline</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">God's great mercy to Judah the polluted land</a> 6. <a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm">Judah is worse than Israel</a> 12. <a href="/jeremiah/3-12.htm">The promises of the gospel to the penitent</a> 20. <a href="/jeremiah/3-20.htm">Israel reproved, and called by God, makes a solemn confession of their sins</a> <div class="vheading2">Chapters</div><a href="/jeremiah/1.htm">Jeremiah 1: The Words of Jeremiah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2.htm">Jeremiah 2: Israel Has Forsaken God</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3.htm">Jeremiah 3: The Polluted Land</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4.htm">Jeremiah 4: God Calls Israel by His Promise</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5.htm">Jeremiah 5: No One is Just</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6.htm">Jeremiah 6: Jerusalem's Final Warning </a> <a href="/jeremiah/7.htm">Jeremiah 7: Jeremiah's Message at the Temple Gate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8.htm">Jeremiah 8: Judah's Sin and Punishment</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9.htm">Jeremiah 9: Jeremiah's Continual Tears</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10.htm">Jeremiah 10: The Sovereignty of God</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11.htm">Jeremiah 11: The Broken Covenant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12.htm">Jeremiah 12: The Prosperity of the Wicked</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13.htm">Jeremiah 13: The Linen Belt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14.htm">Jeremiah 14: Drought, Famine, Sword, Pestilence</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15.htm">Jeremiah 15: Judgment to Continue</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16.htm">Jeremiah 16: Disaster is Predicted</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17.htm">Jeremiah 17: The Sin and Punishment of Judah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18.htm">Jeremiah 18: The Potter and the Clay</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19.htm">Jeremiah 19: The Broken Jar</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20.htm">Jeremiah 20: Pashhur Persecutes Jeremiah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21.htm">Jeremiah 21: Jerusalem Will Fall to Babylon </a> <a href="/jeremiah/22.htm">Jeremiah 22: A Warning for Judah's Kings </a> <a href="/jeremiah/23.htm">Jeremiah 23: David's Righteous Branch</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24.htm">Jeremiah 24: The Good and Bad Figs </a> <a href="/jeremiah/25.htm">Jeremiah 25: The Seventy Year Captivity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/26.htm">Jeremiah 26: Warning to the Cities of Judah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27.htm">Jeremiah 27: The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar </a> <a href="/jeremiah/28.htm">Jeremiah 28: Hananiah's False Prophecy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29.htm">Jeremiah 29: Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30.htm">Jeremiah 30: Restoration of Israel and Judah </a> <a href="/jeremiah/31.htm">Jeremiah 31: Mourning Turned to Joy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32.htm">Jeremiah 32: Jeremiah Buys Hanamel's Field</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33.htm">Jeremiah 33: Restoration Promised Again</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34.htm">Jeremiah 34: A Prophecy Against Zedekiah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/35.htm">Jeremiah 35: Obedience of the Rechabites</a> <a href="/jeremiah/36.htm">Jeremiah 36: Jeremiah's Scroll Read in the Temple</a> <a href="/jeremiah/37.htm">Jeremiah 37: Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah </a> <a href="/jeremiah/38.htm">Jeremiah 38: Jeremiah Cast Into the Cistern</a> <a href="/jeremiah/39.htm">Jeremiah 39: The Fall of Jerusalem</a> <a href="/jeremiah/40.htm">Jeremiah 40: Jeremiah Remains in Judah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/41.htm">Jeremiah 41: Gedaliah Assassinated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/42.htm">Jeremiah 42: Warning Against Going to Egypt </a> <a href="/jeremiah/43.htm">Jeremiah 43: Jeremiah Taken to Egypt </a> <a href="/jeremiah/44.htm">Jeremiah 44: Judgment on the Jews in Egypt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/45.htm">Jeremiah 45: Jeremiah's Message to Baruch</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46.htm">Jeremiah 46: The Judgment on Egypt </a> <a href="/jeremiah/47.htm">Jeremiah 47: The Judgment on the Philistines</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48.htm">Jeremiah 48: The Judgment on Moab</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49.htm">Jeremiah 49: The Judgment on the Ammonites</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50.htm">Jeremiah 50: The Judgment on Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51.htm">Jeremiah 51: Severe Judgment Against Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52.htm">Jeremiah 52: The Fall of Jerusalem Recounted </a> </div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table><div align="center"> 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