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So now the land has been polluted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/3.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/3.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/3.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />And because of the thoughtlessness of her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/3.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“And it came about because of the lightness of her harlotry, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />So it was, because of the lightness of her harlotry, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Because of the thoughtlessness of Israel’s prostitution [her immorality mattered little to her], she desecrated the land and committed adultery with [idols of] stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The kingdom of Judah wasn't sorry for being a prostitute, and she didn't care that she had made both herself and the land unclean by worshiping idols of stone and wood. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Because she wasn't concerned about acting like a prostitute, she polluted the land and committed adultery with standing stones and wood pillars.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/3.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />She took her fornication so lightly that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/3.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />And it came to pass, through her casual prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stone and wood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And it came to pass through the lightness of her lewdness, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And it has come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she commits fornication with stone and with wood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And it was her fornication being light, and she will defile the land, and she will commit adultery with stones and with woods.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />With her casual prostitution, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and wood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Because she took her whoredom so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And her whoredom was so excessive that she defiled the land and committed adultery with idols of stone and wood,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/3.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And because her fornication was debauched, she defiled the land, and she committed adultery with stone and with wood<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/3.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />and it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/3.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-9.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=759" 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">Judah Follows Israel's Example</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wə·hā·yāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">Indifferent to</a> <a href="/hebrew/6963.htm" title="6963: miq·qōl (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- Sound, voice. Or qol; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2184.htm" title="2184: zə·nū·ṯāh (N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Fornication. From zanah; adultery, i.e. infidelity, idolatry.">her own infidelity,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2610.htm" title="2610: wat·te·ḥĕ·nap̄ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To be polluted or profane. A primitive root; to soil, especially in a moral sense.">Israel had defiled</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/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/5003.htm" title="5003: wat·tin·’ap̄ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To commit adultery. A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize.">and committed adultery</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (Prep) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/68.htm" title="68: hā·’e·ḇen (Art:: N-fs) -- A stone. From the root of banah through the meaning to build; a stone.">with stones</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’eṯ- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6086.htm" title="6086: hā·‘êṣ (Art:: N-ms) -- Tree, trees, wood. From atsah; a tree; hence, wood.">and trees.</a> </span><span class="reftext">10</span>Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.…<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/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-14</a></span><br />My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/23-37.htm">Ezekiel 23:37</a></span><br />For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-3.htm">Isaiah 57:3-8</a></span><br />“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! / Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit, / who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm">Ezekiel 16:15-17</a></span><br />But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking. / You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred! / You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2-5</a></span><br />Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts. / Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. / I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-5</a></span><br />Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” / And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-18</a></span><br />All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/6-9.htm">Ezekiel 6:9</a></span><br />Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-15.htm">1 Corinthians 6:15-20</a></span><br />Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! / Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” / But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a></span><br />You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/1-2.htm">Hosea 1:2</a></span><br />When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm">Ezekiel 23:30</a></span><br />have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20-22</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. / Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. / Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/2-17.htm">Judges 2:17</a></span><br />Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/21-11.htm">2 Chronicles 21:11-13</a></span><br />Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray. / Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah, / but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And it came to pass through the lightness of her prostitution, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.</p><p class="hdg">lightness.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/23-10.htm">Ezekiel 23:10</a></b></br> These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.</p><p class="hdg">she defiled</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2</a></b></br> Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-7.htm">Jeremiah 2:7</a></b></br> And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.</p><p class="hdg">committed</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-27.htm">Jeremiah 2:27</a></b></br> Saying to a stock, Thou <i>art</i> my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned <i>their</i> back unto me, and not <i>their</i> face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/10-8.htm">Jeremiah 10:8</a></b></br> But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock <i>is</i> a doctrine of vanities.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/57-6.htm">Isaiah 57:6</a></b></br> Among the smooth <i>stones</i> of the stream <i>is</i> thy portion; they, they <i>are</i> thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Adultery</a> <a href="/isaiah/59-14.htm">Behaviour</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Committed</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-32.htm">Committeth</a> <a href="/revelation/2-22.htm">Committing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-23.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Fornication</a> <a href="/numbers/25-1.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/numbers/25-1.htm">Immorality</a> <a href="/isaiah/56-10.htm">Israel's</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/1-17.htm">Lightness</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-18.htm">Little</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Polluted</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm">Stocks</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-27.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/isaiah/62-10.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-3.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Untrue</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-3.htm">Whoredom</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-27.htm">Wood</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Adultery</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-4.htm">Behaviour</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Committed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-6.htm">Committeth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-5.htm">Committing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-18.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Fornication</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Immorality</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm">Israel's</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/1-17.htm">Lightness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-3.htm">Little</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-18.htm">Polluted</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-2.htm">Stocks</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-18.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-21.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-13.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-30.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Untrue</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Whoredom</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-14.htm">Wood</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'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/3.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/jeremiah/3.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Indifferent to her own infidelity</b><br>Israel's spiritual infidelity is a recurring theme in the prophetic books. This phrase highlights Israel's lack of awareness or concern for her unfaithfulness to God. The indifference suggests a hardened heart, a condition often warned against in Scripture (<a href="/hebrews/3-13.htm">Hebrews 3:13</a>). This spiritual blindness is akin to the condition of the Laodicean church in <a href="/revelation/3-15.htm">Revelation 3:15-17</a>, which was unaware of its own spiritual poverty.<p><b>Israel had defiled the land</b><br>The defilement of the land refers to the spiritual and moral corruption that resulted from Israel's idolatry. In the Old Testament, the land is often seen as a gift from God, a place of blessing contingent upon Israel's obedience (Deuteronomy 28). The defilement is not just a personal sin but has communal and environmental consequences, echoing the covenant curses outlined in <a href="/leviticus/26.htm">Leviticus 26</a> and <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>.<p><b>and committed adultery with stones and trees</b><br>This phrase uses the metaphor of adultery to describe Israel's idolatry. Stones and trees refer to the materials used to create idols and the locations of pagan worship, such as the high places and sacred groves. This imagery is consistent with other prophetic writings, such as <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-13</a>, where Israel's idolatry is likened to marital unfaithfulness. The use of natural elements in idol worship reflects the Canaanite religious practices that Israel adopted, contrary to God's commands in <a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-5</a>. This idolatry is a direct violation of the covenant relationship between God and Israel, symbolizing a breach of trust and loyalty.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The northern kingdom, often depicted as unfaithful to God, engaging in idolatry and spiritual adultery.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>The prophet who conveyed God's messages to Judah and Israel, warning them of their unfaithfulness and calling them to repentance.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/a/adultery_with_stones_and_trees.htm">Adultery with Stones and Trees</a></b><br>A metaphor for idolatry, where Israel worshipped idols made of stone and wood, turning away from the true God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_land.htm">The Land</a></b><br>Refers to the Promised Land, which was defiled by Israel's idolatrous practices.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The covenant-keeping God who desires faithfulness from His people and calls them back to Himself.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_idolatry.htm">The Seriousness of Idolatry</a></b><br>Idolatry is not just the worship of physical idols but anything that takes the place of God in our hearts. We must examine our lives for modern-day idols.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_adultery.htm">Spiritual Adultery</a></b><br>Just as physical adultery breaks the marriage covenant, spiritual adultery breaks our covenant with God. We are called to faithfulness in our relationship with Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_defilement_of_sin.htm">The Defilement of Sin</a></b><br>Sin not only affects our relationship with God but also defiles the environment around us. Our actions have broader implications than we might realize.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_call_to_repentance.htm">God's Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God continually calls His people back to Himself. His grace and mercy are available to those who repent.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_covenant_faithfulness.htm">The Importance of Covenant Faithfulness</a></b><br>Our relationship with God is based on a covenant. Understanding and valuing this covenant helps us remain faithful and obedient.<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/how_to_show_approval_worthiness.htm">What does the Fig Tree Prophecy entail?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_defines_new_israel's_identity.htm">What defines the identity of the new Israel?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/are_there_records_of_invasions_in_jeremiah_12_14.htm">In Jeremiah 12:14, God mentions punishing invading neighbors. Are there historical records confirming such invasions or conflicts?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_israel's_idolatry_in_hosea_9_1.htm">In Hosea 9:1, what evidence supports or disputes Israel's alleged widespread idolatry as described here?</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>(9) <span class= "bld">The lightness of her whoredom.</span>--Lightness in the ethical sense of "levity." Apostasy was treated once more as if it had been a light thing (<a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm" title="And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.">1Kings 16:31</a>). The word is, however, very variously interpreted, and the meaning of "voice," or "cry," in the sense in which the "cry" of Sodom and Gomorrah was great (<a href="/genesis/18-20.htm" title="And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;">Genesis 18:20</a>), seems more satisfactory. On "stones" and "stocks," see Note on <a href="/jeremiah/2-27.htm" title="Saying to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.">Jeremiah 2:27</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Through the lightness of her whoredom</span>; <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. through the slight importance which she attached to her whoredom. So apparently the ancient versions. The only sense, however, which the word <span class="accented">kol</span> ever has in Hebrew is not "lightness," but "sound," "voice," and perhaps "rumor" (<a href="/genesis/45-16.htm">Genesis 45:16</a>). Hence it is more strictly accurate to render "through the cry." etc. (comp. <a href="/genesis/4-10.htm">Genesis 4:10</a>; <a href="/genesis/19-13.htm">Genesis 19:13</a>), or "through the fame," etc. (as Authorized Version, margin). But neither of these seems quite suitable to the context, and if, as King James's translators seem to have felt it necessary to do, we desert the faithful translation, and enter on the path of conjecture, why not emend <span class="accented">kol</span> into <span class="accented">klon</span> (there is no <span class="accented">vav</span>, and such fragments of true readings are not altogether uncommon in the Hebrew text), which at once yields a good meaning - "through the disgrace of her whoredom ?" Ewald thinks that <span class="accented">kol</span> may be taken in the sense of <span class="accented">k'lon</span>; but this is really more arbitrary than emending the text. <span class="cmt_word">With stones</span>, etc. (see <a href="/jeremiah/2-27.htm">Jeremiah 2:27</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/3-9.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">Indifferent to</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהָיָה֙</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hā·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">her immorality,</span><br /><span class="heb">זְנוּתָ֔הּ</span> <span class="translit">(zə·nū·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2184.htm">Strong's 2184: </a> </span><span class="str2">Adultery, infidelity, idolatry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[Israel had] defiled</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתֶּחֱנַ֖ף</span> <span class="translit">(wat·te·ḥĕ·nap̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2610.htm">Strong's 2610: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be polluted or profane</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the land</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאָ֑רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ā·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and committed adultery</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתִּנְאַ֥ף</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tin·’ap̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5003.htm">Strong's 5003: </a> </span><span class="str2">To commit adultery, to apostatize</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with stones</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֶ֖בֶן</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’e·ḇen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_68.htm">Strong's 68: </a> </span><span class="str2">A stone</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and trees.</span><br /><span class="heb">הָעֵֽץ׃</span> <span class="translit">(hā·‘êṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6086.htm">Strong's 6086: </a> </span><span class="str2">Tree, trees, wood</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 3:9 It happened through the lightness of her (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 3:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 3:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/3-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 3:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 3:10" /></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>