KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 3
Jehovah's great mercy in Judah's blatant adultery. Judah is worse than Israel. The promises of the gospel to the ones who repent.
1They say, If a man sends away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you fornicate with many lovers; yet would you come back to Me, a statement of Jehovah.
2Lift up your eyes on the bare heights and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like an Arab in the desert. And you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your evil.
3And the showers are withheld, and there has been no latter rain. And the forehead of a woman, one doing adultery, was to you; you refused to be ashamed.
4Have you not just now called to Me, saying, My father, You are the friend of my youth?
5Will He keep His anger forever? Or will He guard it to the end? Behold, you have spoken, and you have done all the evil that you could.
6And Jehovah said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what the apostate Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.
7And after she had done all these, I said, She will return to Me; but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw.
8And I watched when for all the causes for which the apostate Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and I gave the writ of her divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and fornicated.
9And it happened, from the vileness of her fornication she defiled the land, and fornicated with stones and with trees.
10And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, a statement of Jehovah.
11And Jehovah said to me, The apostate Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12Go and cry these words toward the north, and say, Return, O apostate Israel, a statement of Jehovah. I will not cause My face to fall on you, for I am holy, a statement of Jehovah; I will not keep anger forever.
13Only know your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, a statement of Jehovah.
14Turn back, O apostate sons, a statement of Jehovah; for I am Lord over you. And I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
15And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16And it will be, when you multiply and increase in the land in those days, a statement of Jehovah, they will no longer say, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah! And it shall not come on the heart, and not shall they remember it, and not they shall miss it, and it shall not be made any more.
17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah. And all nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. And they shall not walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
18In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north, to the land that I have caused your fathers to inherit.
19But I said, How gladly would I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the multitudes of nations! And I said, You shall call Me, My Father; and you shall not turn away from following Me.
20Surely as a wife acts treacherously from her companion, so you have acted treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, a statement of Jehovah.
21A voice was heard weeping on the bare heights, pleadings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way; they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
22Return, O apostate sons; I will heal your apostasies. Behold, we come to You, for You are Jehovah our God.
23Truly, for delusion comes from the hills, a murmur on the mountains. Truly, in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.
24For the things of shame have eaten up the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us. For we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.
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