These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Jeremiah 3
Tanakh 25 verses
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saying: If a man put away his wife, And she go from him, And become another man’s, May he return unto her again? Will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; And wouldest thou yet return to Me? Saith .
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Deuteronomy 24:1-4 Jeremiah 2:20 Jeremiah 4:1 Ezekiel 16:26 Hosea 14:1-4 Jeremiah 2:23 Jeremiah 8:4-6 Jeremiah 3:9 Isaiah 55:6-9 Ezekiel 23:4-49 Luke 15:16-24 Hosea 2:5-7 Ezekiel 16:28-29 Deuteronomy 4:29-31 Jeremiah 4:14 Hosea 1:2 Judges 19:2 Ezekiel 33:11 Zechariah 1:3 Isaiah 24:5 Micah 2:10 Jeremiah 2:7 Leviticus 18:24-28 Jeremiah 3:12-14 Deuteronomy 22:21 Jeremiah 3:22 - 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high hills, and see: Where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, As an Arabian in the wilderness; And thou hast polluted the land With thy harlotries and with thy wickedness.
- 3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there hath been no latter rain; Yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, Thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- 4 Didst thou not just now cry unto Me: ‘My father, Thou art the friend of my youth.
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Will He bear grudge for ever? Will He keep it to the end?’ Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, And hast had thy way.
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- 6 And said unto me in the days of the : ‘Hast thou seen that which backsliding did? she went up upon every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and there played the harlot.
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And I said: After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her treacherous sister saw it.
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- 8 And I saw, when, forasmuch as backsliding had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, that yet treacherous her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot;
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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;
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and yet for all this her treacherous sister hath not returned unto Me with her whole , but feignedly, saith —
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even said unto me—backsliding hath proved herself more righteous than treacherous .
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Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, thou backsliding , Saith ; I will not frown upon you; For I am merciful, saith , I will not bear grudge for ever.
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Psalm 86:15 Ezekiel 33:11 Jeremiah 3:18 Jeremiah 31:20 Jeremiah 3:22 Jeremiah 3:5 Psalm 86:5 Jeremiah 33:26 Deuteronomy 4:29-31 2 Kings 17:6 Jeremiah 3:7 Jeremiah 3:1 Micah 7:18-20 Jeremiah 31:8 Psalm 79:5 Psalm 103:8 2 Kings 17:23 Jeremiah 4:1 2 Kings 15:29 Romans 5:20-21 2 Chronicles 30:9 Hosea 6:1 Ezekiel 39:25 Hosea 14:1-3 Psalm 145:8 Isaiah 44:22 2 Kings 18:1 Jeremiah 30:11 Jeremiah 3:14 Deuteronomy 30:2 Hosea 11:8-9 Jeremiah 23:8 Psalm 103:17 Proverbs 28:13 - 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, That thou hast transgressed against thy , And hast scattered thy ways to the strangers Under every leafy tree, And ye have not hearkened to My voice, Saith .
- 14 Return, O backsliding children, saith ; for I am a lord unto you, and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to ;
- 15 and I will give you shepherds according to My , who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
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And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith , they shall say no more: The of the of ; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they make mention of it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.
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Isaiah 65:17 Isaiah 60:22 Zephaniah 3:11 Jeremiah 30:19 Ezekiel 36:8-12 Matthew 3:9 Hebrews 10:8-9 Zechariah 10:7-9 Amos 9:9 Amos 9:14-15 Hebrews 10:19-21 John 4:20-24 Matthew 1:11 Jeremiah 31:27 Hosea 1:10-11 Isaiah 66:1-2 Isaiah 61:4 Ezekiel 37:26 Jeremiah 31:8 Hebrews 9:9-12 Zechariah 8:4-5 Jeremiah 7:4 -
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At that time they shall call The throne of ; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the of , to ; neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil .
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Jeremiah 17:12 Ezekiel 43:7 Jeremiah 11:8 Romans 1:21 Micah 4:1-5 Ezekiel 1:26 Isaiah 49:18-23 Genesis 8:21 Isaiah 26:8 Numbers 15:39 Isaiah 6:1 Isaiah 56:6 Isaiah 60:3-9 Jeremiah 16:12 Jeremiah 14:21 Zechariah 2:11 Jeremiah 31:23 Isaiah 66:1 Ephesians 4:17-19 Isaiah 66:20 Jeremiah 7:24 Psalm 78:8 Romans 6:14 Isaiah 2:2-4 Deuteronomy 29:29 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 Judges 2:19 Jeremiah 9:14 Zechariah 8:20-23 Jeremiah 18:12 Psalm 87:3 Isaiah 59:19 Galatians 4:26 - 18 In those days the house of shall walk with the house of , and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.’
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But I said: ‘How would I put thee among the sons, And give thee a pleasant land, The goodliest heritage of the nations!’ And I said: ‘Thou shalt call Me, My father; And shalt not turn away from following Me.’
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Jeremiah 3:4 Isaiah 63:16 Ephesians 1:5 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 6:8-9 Galatians 3:26 Galatians 4:5-7 Daniel 11:16 Isaiah 64:8 Jeremiah 5:7 Jeremiah 31:9 Daniel 8:9 John 1:11-13 Jeremiah 12:10 Jeremiah 32:39-40 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 Psalm 106:24 Daniel 11:41 Hosea 11:8 Proverbs 3:35 Hebrews 10:39 Daniel 11:45 Romans 8:15-17 Ezekiel 20:6 1 Peter 1:3-4 Jeremiah 31:20 -
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Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, So have ye dealt treacherously with Me, O house of , Saith .
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- 21 Hark! upon the high hills is heard The suppliant weeping of the children of ; For that they have perverted their way, They have forgotten their .
- 22 Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings.—‘Here we are, we are come unto Thee; For Thou art our .
- 23 Truly vain have proved the hills, The uproar on the mountains; Truly in our Is the of .
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But the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth; Their flocks and their herds, Their sons and their daughters.
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Let us lie down in our shame, And let our confusion cover us; For we have sinned against our , We and our fathers, From our youth even unto this day; And we have not hearkened To the voice of our .’
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Jeremiah 22:21 Jeremiah 6:26 Lamentations 5:16 Nehemiah 9:32-34 Isaiah 50:11 Deuteronomy 31:17-18 Lamentations 5:7 Ezekiel 36:32 Jeremiah 2:2 Romans 6:21 Ezra 9:6-15 Jeremiah 2:19 Judges 2:2 Daniel 12:2 Ezekiel 7:18 Psalm 109:29 Jeremiah 2:26 Isaiah 48:8 Jeremiah 2:17 Daniel 9:6-10 Psalm 106:7 Proverbs 5:13