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their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/3.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />For shame has devoured The labor of our fathers from our youth— Their flocks and their herds, Their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“But the shame has consumed the product of our fathers’ labor since our youth—their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/3.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220But the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“But the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“But the shameful act [of idolatry] has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth—their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />From the time of our youth the shameful one has consumed what our ancestors have worked for — their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />From the time of our youth the shameful one has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Since the days of our ancestors when our nation was young, that shameful god Baal has taken our crops and livestock, our sons and daughters. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />But the shameful thing hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Ever since we were young, the shameful worship [of Baal] has taken everything our ancestors worked for, their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But the worship of Baal, the god of shame, has made us lose flocks and herds, sons and daughters--everything that our ancestors have worked for since ancient times. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/3.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Since our youth the false gods have consumed the products of our ancestors' hard work, their sheep and their cattle, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for?their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/3.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away all that our ancestors worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For shame hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And the shameful thing has devoured "" The labor of our fathers from our youth, "" Their flock and their herd, "" Their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And shame consumed the labor of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their herd, their sons and their daughters.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Confusion hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Confusion has devoured the labor of our fathers, from our youth, with their flocks and their herds, with their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The shameful thing has devoured our ancestors’ worth from our youth, Their sheep and cattle, their sons and daughters. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />“But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our ancestors had labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from their childhood, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/3.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And shame consumed the labor of our fathers from their youth, and their sheep and their oxen and their sons and their daughters<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/3.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />But the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth; Their flocks and their herds, Their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/3.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />But shame has consumed the labours of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=947" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Invitation to Repentance</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">23</span>Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God. <span class="reftext">24</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5271.htm" title="5271: min·nə·‘ū·rê·nū (Prep-m:: N-mpc:: 1cp) -- Or naur; and nturah; properly, passive participle from na'ar as denominative; youth, the state or the persons.">From our youth,</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1322.htm" title="1322: wə·hab·bō·šeṯ (Conj-w, Art:: N-fs) -- Shame, shameful thing. From buwsh; shame; by implication an idol.">that shameful god</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: ’ā·ḵə·lāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">has consumed</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: ’ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·nū (N-mpc:: 1cp) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">what our fathers</a> <a href="/hebrew/3018.htm" title="3018: yə·ḡî·a‘ (N-msc) -- Toil, product. From yaga'; toil; hence, a work, produce, property.">have worked for—</a> <a href="/hebrew/6629.htm" title="6629: ṣō·nām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock. Or tsaown; from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock; also figuratively.">their flocks</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’eṯ- (Conj-w:: DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1241.htm" title="1241: bə·qā·rām (N-msc:: 3mp) -- Cattle, herd, an ox. From baqar; beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender; collectively, a herd.">and herds,</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: bə·nê·hem (N-mpc:: 3mp) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">their sons</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’eṯ- (Conj-w:: DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: bə·nō·w·ṯê·hem (N-fpc:: 3mp) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">and daughters.</a> </span><span class="reftext">25</span>Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10</a></span><br />I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-64.htm">Deuteronomy 28:64-68</a></span><br />Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. / Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul. / So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm">2 Kings 17:15-18</a></span><br />They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. / They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal. / They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-13.htm">Isaiah 57:13</a></span><br />When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-28.htm">Ezekiel 20:28</a></span><br />When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/2-11.htm">Judges 2:11-15</a></span><br />And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. / Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/106-36.htm">Psalm 106:36-39</a></span><br />They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. / They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. / They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/12-21.htm">1 Samuel 12:21</a></span><br />Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/28-23.htm">2 Chronicles 28:23</a></span><br />He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-29.htm">Isaiah 1:29-31</a></span><br />Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen. / For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water. / The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-21.htm">Romans 1:21-25</a></span><br />For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/8-4.htm">1 Corinthians 8:4-6</a></span><br />So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one. / For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords), / yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/4-8.htm">Galatians 4:8-9</a></span><br />Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. / But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/5-5.htm">Ephesians 5:5-6</a></span><br />For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. / Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5-6</a></span><br />Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/11-13.htm">Jeremiah 11:13</a></b></br> For <i>according to</i> the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and <i>according to</i> the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to <i>that</i> shameful thing, <i>even</i> altars to burn incense unto Baal.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/16-61.htm">Ezekiel 16:61,63</a></b></br> Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/2-8.htm">Hosea 2:8</a></b></br> For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, <i>which</i> they prepared for Baal.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/2-8.htm">Baal</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-17.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-4.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-30.htm">Devoured</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-16.htm">Earliest</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-18.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm">Flock</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm">Flocks</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-7.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-28.htm">Gods</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm">Herd</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm">Herds</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-7.htm">Labor</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-3.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-26.htm">Shameful</a> <a href="/jeremiah/1-16.htm">Work</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-4.htm">Youth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Baal</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-3.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Daughters</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-14.htm">Devoured</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-21.htm">Earliest</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-25.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-21.htm">Flock</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Flocks</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-13.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Gods</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-12.htm">Herd</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Herds</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-31.htm">Labor</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-25.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-13.htm">Shameful</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-3.htm">Work</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-25.htm">Youth</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 3</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">God's great mercy to Judah the polluted land</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm">Judah is worse than Israel</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-12.htm">The promises of the gospel to the penitent</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-20.htm">Israel reproved, and called by God, makes a solemn confession of their sins</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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It reflects the generational nature of sin, where practices and beliefs are passed down, often without question. This is reminiscent of the Israelites' repeated cycles of disobedience throughout the Old Testament, as seen in <a href="/judges/2-10.htm">Judges 2:10-12</a>, where a new generation arose that did not know the Lord.<p><b>that shameful god</b><br>The "shameful god" likely refers to Baal or other Canaanite deities that Israel frequently turned to, despite God's commands against idolatry. These gods were associated with fertility and prosperity but were ultimately powerless and led to Israel's spiritual and moral decline. The term "shameful" underscores the disgrace and futility of worshiping false gods, as seen in <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10</a>, where Israel's idolatry is likened to the shame of their ancestors.<p><b>has consumed what our fathers have worked for</b><br>Idolatry is depicted as a consuming force, devouring the fruits of labor and the blessings God intended for His people. This consumption can be understood both literally, in terms of economic loss, and spiritually, as it leads to a loss of divine favor and protection. The imagery of consumption is echoed in <a href="/haggai/1-6.htm">Haggai 1:6</a>, where the people's efforts are unproductive because they have neglected God.<p><b>their flocks and herds</b><br>Flocks and herds were vital to the agrarian economy of ancient Israel, representing wealth, sustenance, and God's provision. The loss of these resources due to idolatry signifies not only economic ruin but also a breach in the covenant relationship with God, who promised to bless their livestock if they remained faithful (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-4.htm">Deuteronomy 28:4</a>). This loss is a direct consequence of turning away from God.<p><b>their sons and daughters</b><br>The mention of sons and daughters highlights the severe impact of idolatry on families and future generations. In some cases, this may allude to the horrific practice of child sacrifice associated with certain pagan rituals, as condemned in <a href="/2_kings/17-17.htm">2 Kings 17:17</a>. It also signifies the spiritual and moral corruption that affects children when parents stray from God's commandments, emphasizing the importance of teaching and living out faith as instructed in <a href="/deuteronomy/6-6.htm">Deuteronomy 6:6-7</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, known for his messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, often warned by prophets like Jeremiah about their idolatry and disobedience to God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/shameful_god.htm">Shameful god</a></b><br>Refers to the idols and false gods that the people of Judah worshipped, leading them away from the true God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/f/fathers.htm">Fathers</a></b><br>The ancestors of the people of Judah, who had worked hard to provide for their families and maintain their heritage.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/f/flocks_and_herds.htm">Flocks and Herds</a></b><br>Represents the wealth and livelihood of the people, which were squandered due to idolatry.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_idolatry.htm">The Consequences of Idolatry</a></b><br>Idolatry leads to the loss of what is valuable, both materially and spiritually. It consumes resources and relationships, leaving emptiness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/generational_impact.htm">Generational Impact</a></b><br>The choices of one generation affect the next. The idolatry of the fathers led to the suffering of their children, emphasizing the importance of godly legacy.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/true_worship.htm">True Worship</a></b><br>Worship should be directed to God alone. Anything that takes His place in our lives becomes a "shameful god" that leads us away from His blessings.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>God calls His people to turn away from idols and return to Him. Repentance is the first step towards restoration and reclaiming what has been lost.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/guarding_against_modern_idols.htm">Guarding Against Modern Idols</a></b><br>In today's world, idols may not be physical statues but can be anything that takes priority over God, such as money, power, or personal desires.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_3.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 3</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/meaning_of_'god_is_a_consuming_fire'.htm">What does 'God is a consuming fire' mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_jeremiah_3_show_divine_forgiveness.htm">Why does Jeremiah 3 portray repeated divine forgiveness despite other passages advocating strict judgment, seemingly creating a moral and theological tension?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_god_renew_israel's_covenant.htm">How can God renew a covenant with Israel in Jeremiah 3:1-8 despite Deuteronomy 24:1-4 forbidding reunions after divorce?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_god_'withdraw'_yet_remain_omnipresent.htm">Hosea 5:15 - How can one reconcile the notion of God 'withdrawing' from His people with other passages that emphasize divine omnipresence and faithfulness?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(24) <span class= "bld">Shame.</span>--The Hebrew noun has the article, "<span class= "ital">the </span>shame," and is the word constantly used as the interchangeable synonym for Baal, as in Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth (<a href="/judges/6-32.htm" title="Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he has thrown down his altar.">Judges 6:32</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/11-21.htm" title="Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went you near the wall? then say you, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.">2Samuel 11:21</a>), Mephibosheth and Merib-baal (<a href="/2_samuel/4-4.htm" title="And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.">2Samuel 4:4</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/8-34.htm" title="And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah.">1Chronicles 8:34</a>). The words point accordingly to the prodigal waste of victims, possibly of human life also, in the worship of Baal and that of Molech, which in the prophet's mind was identified with it, and which had brought with it nothing but a lasting shame. This also forms part of the confession of the repentant people (comp. <a href="/jeremiah/11-13.htm" title="For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.">Jeremiah 11:13</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 24.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">For shame</span>; rather, <span class="accented">and the</span> Shame (i.e. the Baal). The words <span class="accented">Bosheth</span> ("Shame") and <span class="accented">Baal</span> are frequently interchanged; so again in <a href="/jeremiah/11-13.htm">Jeremiah 11:13</a> (comp. <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Hosea 9:10</a>). So, too, Jerubbesheth stands for Jerubbaal (<a href="/2_samuel/11-21.htm">2 Samuel 11:21</a>; comp. <a href="/judges/6-32.htm">Judges 6:32</a>); Ishbosheth for Eshbaal (<a href="/2_samuel/2-8.htm">2 Samuel 2:8</a>; comp. <a href="/1_chronicles/8-33.htm">1 Chronicles 8:33</a>). <span class="cmt_word">Hath devoured the labor of our fathers</span>, etc.; a condensed way of saying that Baal-worship has brought the judgments' of God upon us,, our flocks, and herds, and all the other labor (or rather "wealth;' <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. fruit of labor) of our fathers, being destroyed as the punishment of our sins (comp. <a href="/deuteronomy/28-30.htm">Deuteronomy 28:30-32</a>). Another view is that the "devouring" had to do with the sacrifices, but it is improbable that the sacrificial worship of Baal bad developed to such a portentous extent, and the former explanation is in itself more suitable to the context. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">From our youth,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִנְּעוּרֵ֑ינוּ</span> <span class="translit">(min·nə·‘ū·rê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5271.htm">Strong's 5271: </a> </span><span class="str2">Youth, the state, the persons</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that shameful [god]</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהַבֹּ֗שֶׁת</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hab·bō·šeṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1322.htm">Strong's 1322: </a> </span><span class="str2">Shame, shameful thing</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has consumed</span><br /><span class="heb">אָֽכְלָ֛ה</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḵə·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">what our fathers</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲבוֹתֵ֖ינוּ</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> </span><span class="str2">Father</span><br /><br /><span class="word">have worked for—</span><br /><span class="heb">יְגִ֥יעַ</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḡî·a‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3018.htm">Strong's 3018: </a> </span><span class="str2">Toil, a work, produce, property</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their flocks</span><br /><span class="heb">צֹאנָם֙</span> <span class="translit">(ṣō·nām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6629.htm">Strong's 6629: </a> </span><span class="str2">Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and herds,</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּקָרָ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(bə·qā·rām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1241.htm">Strong's 1241: </a> </span><span class="str2">Beef cattle, ox, a herd</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their sons</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּנֵיהֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(bə·nê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and daughters.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּנוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(bə·nō·w·ṯê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> </span><span class="str2">A daughter</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/3-24.htm">Jeremiah 3:24 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/3-24.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 3:24 But the shameful thing has devoured (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/3-23.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 3:23"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 3:23" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/3-25.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 3:25"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 3:25" /></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>