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<p class="indent2"> Would not such a land be completely defiled? <p class="indent1"> But you have played the harlot with many lovers—<p class="indent2"> and you would return to Me?” <p class="selah"> declares the LORD. <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. <p class="indent2"> Is there any place where you have not been violated? <p class="indent1"> You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, <p class="indent2"> like a nomad in the desert. <p class="indent1"> You have defiled the land <p class="indent2"> with your prostitution and wickedness. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore the showers have been withheld, <p class="indent2"> and no spring rains have fallen. <p class="indent1"> Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; <p class="indent2"> you refuse to be ashamed. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Have you not just called to Me, <p class="indent2">‘My Father, You are my friend from youth. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Will He be angry forever? <p class="indent2"> Will He be indignant to the end?’ <p class="indent1"> This you have spoken, <p class="indent2"> but you keep doing all the evil you can.” <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Judah Follows Israel’s Example<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>She saw<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> 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. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></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. <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Repentance<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../hosea/14.htm">Hosea 14:1–3</a>; <a href ="../zechariah/1.htm">Zechariah 1:1–6</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Go, proclaim this message toward the north: <p class="indent1stline">‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. <p class="indent2">‘I will no longer look on you with anger, <p class="indent1"> for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. <p class="indent2">‘I will not be angry forever. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Only acknowledge your guilt, <p class="indent2"> that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. <p class="indent1"> You have scattered your favors to foreign gods <p class="indent2"> under every green tree <p class="indent2"> and have not obeyed My voice,’” <p class="selah"> declares the LORD. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons <p class="indent2"> and give you a desirable land, <p class="indent1"> the most beautiful inheritance <p class="indent2"> of all the nations!’ <p class="indent1"> I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ <p class="indent2"> and never turn away from following Me. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But as a woman may betray her husband, <p class="indent2"> so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” <p class="selah"> declares the LORD. <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>A voice is heard on the barren heights, <p class="indent2"> the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, <p class="indent1"> because they have perverted their ways <p class="indent2"> and forgotten the LORD their God. <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Return, O faithless children, <p class="indent2"> and I will heal your faithlessness.” <p class="indent1stline">“Here we are. We come to You, <p class="indent2"> for You are the LORD our God. <A name="24"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Surely deception comes from the hills, <p class="indent2"> and commotion from the mountains. <p class="indent1"> Surely the salvation of Israel <p class="indent2"> is in the LORD our God. <A name="25"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>From our youth, that shameful god <p class="indent2"> has consumed what our fathers have worked for—<p class="indent1"> their flocks and herds, <p class="indent2"> their sons and daughters. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let us lie down in our shame; <p class="indent2"> let our disgrace cover us. <p class="indent1"> We have sinned against the LORD our God, <p class="indent2"> both we and our fathers; <p class="indent1"> from our youth even to this day <p class="indent2"> we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> DSS, one LXX manuscript, and Syriac; MT <i>I saw</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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