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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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"><title>Jeremiah 3 Lamsa Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><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="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Lamsa</a> > Jeremiah 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>IF a man put away his wife, and she go from him and become another man's wife, and he return to her again, behold, the land shall be defiled. But you have committed adultery with many rulers; return again to me, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes to the highways, and see if there is a place where you have not defiled yourself. In the roads you have sat waiting for them, like an ostrich in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredom.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>And because of your wickedness the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you have become shameless like a whore, you have refused to be reproved.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Behold, now you say to me, My father, and thou art foster mother of my childhood.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>Will God reserve his anger for ever? Or will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken, and have done evil things beyond measure.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah, Have you seen the thing which she who dwells in Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>And I said after she had done all these things, Return to me, but she did not return. And her perverseness was seen by her sister Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And she saw all Israel's evil-doings. And because the inhabitants of Israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given a bill of divorce; yet her perverse sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>And her whoredom was so excessive that she defiled the land and committed adultery with idols of stone and wood, <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>And yet, for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only with falsehood, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And the LORD said to me, The inhabitant of Israel has justified herself more than her perverse sister Judah.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>Go proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Repent, O you inhabitant of Israel, says the LORD; and I will not be severe against you; for I am good, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Only acknowledge your iniquity, for you have sinned against the LORD your God, and have scattered your evil practices to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>Repent, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I was pleased with you; and took one person of you from every town and two from every family, and I brought you to Zion.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>And I will give you rulers according to my own heart, who will govern you with knowledge and understanding. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass when you have multiplied and increased in the land in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD; neither shall it come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall that ritual be performed any more. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall look up to the name of the LORD; neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>In 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 have given as an inheritance to their fathers.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>And I said, I will consider you as children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations; and I said, You shall call me, My father, and shall not turn away from me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>Surely as a wife lies about her lover, so has the house of Israel lied against me, says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>A voice was heard on the highways, the weeping and supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their ways, and they have forsaken the LORD their God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Repent, O you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings; and say, Behold, we are yours; for thou art the LORD our God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from fortified mountains; truly, in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from their childhood, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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