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Jeremiah

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Chapter 3

1“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me?” declares the LORD. 2Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the roads you have sat for them like an Arab in the wilderness; you have polluted the land with your whoring and with your wickedness. 3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed. 4Have you not just now called to me, “My Father, you are the friend of my youth— 5will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?” Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.” 6The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there has played the whore. 7And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8She saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she herself went and played the whore. 9Because she made so light of her whoring, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree. 10Yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” declares the LORD. 11And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever. 13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD. 14Return, O faithless children, declares the LORD; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. 15“‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no longer say, “The ark of the covenant of the LORD.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; nor shall another one be made. 17At that time Jerusalem shall be called the Throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no longer stubbornly follow their own evil heart. 18In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage. 19“‘I said, How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a most beautiful heritage. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me. 20But as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. 21“A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22“Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God. 23Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, from the tumult on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. 24But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all that our fathers labored for, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”