| 1 | They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man`s, will he return to her again? Won`t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh. | Dt 24:1-4 |
| 2 | Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. | Jer 2:23 Ezk 8:4-6 Lk 16:23 |
| 3 | Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute`s forehead, you refused to be ashamed. | Jer 9:12 Jer 14:4 Jer 14:22 Lv 26:19 Dt 28:23 Isa 5:6 Jl 1:16-20 Am 4:7 Hg 1:11 |
| 4 | Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth? | Jer 3:19 Jer 31:9 Jer 31:18-20 Hos 14:1-3 |
| 5 | Will he retain [his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way. | Jer 3:12 Ps 77:7-9 Ps 85:5 Ps 103:8 Ps 103:9 Isa 57:16 Isa 64:9 |
| 6 | Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute. | Jer 3:8 Jer 3:11-14 Jer 2:19 Jer 7:24 2Ki 17:7-17 Ezk 23:11 |
| 7 | I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn`t return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. | 2Ki 17:13 2Ki 17:14 2Ch 30:6-12 Hos 6:1-4 Hos 14:1 |
| 8 | I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn`t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute. | Jer 3:1 2Ki 17:6-18 2Ki 18:9-11 Ezk 23:9 Hos 2:2 Hos 2:3 Hos 3:4 Hos 4:15-17 Hos 9:15-17 |
| 9 | It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks. | Ezk 23:10 |
| 10 | Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh. | 2Ch 34:33 2Ch 35:1-18 Ps 78:36 Ps 78:37 Isa 10:6 Hos 7:14 |
| 11 | Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. | Jer 3:8 Jer 3:22 Hos 4:16 Hos 11:7 |
| 12 | Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep [anger] forever. | Jer 3:18 Jer 23:8 Jer 31:8 2Ki 15:29 2Ki 17:6 2Ki 17:23 2Ki 18:1 |
| 13 | Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh. | Jer 3:25 Jer 31:18-20 Lv 26:40-42 Dt 30:1-3 Jb 33:27 Jb 33:28 Pr 28:13 Lk 15:18-21 1Jn 1:8-10 |
| 14 | Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: | Jer 2:19 |
| 15 | and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. | Jer 23:4 1Sa 13:14 Isa 30:20 Isa 30:21 Ezk 34:23 Ezk 37:24 Mic 5:4 Mic 5:5 Jn 10:1-5 Jn 21:15-17 Eph 4:11 Eph 4:12 1Pe 5:1-4 |
| 16 | It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more. | Jer 30:19 Jer 31:8 Jer 31:27 Isa 60:22 Isa 61:4 Ezk 36:8-12 Ezk 37:26 Hos 1:10 Hos 1:11 Am 9:9 Am 9:14 Am 9:15 Zc 8:4 Zc 8:5 Zc 10:7-9 |
| 17 | At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart. | Jer 14:21 Jer 17:12 Jer 31:23 Ps 87:3 Isa 6:1 Isa 66:1 Ezk 1:26 Ezk 43:7 Ga 4:26 |
| 18 | In 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 gave for an inheritance to your fathers. | Jer 30:3 Jer 50:4 Jer 50:20 Isa 11:11-13 Ezk 37:16-22 Ezk 39:25-28 Hos 1:11 Hos 11:12 Zc 10:6 |
| 19 | But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me. | Jer 5:7 Hos 11:8 |
| 20 | Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh. | Hos 3:1 |
| 21 | A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God. | Jer 30:15-17 Jer 31:9 Jer 31:18-20 Jer 50:4 Jer 50:5 Isa 15:2 Ezk 7:16 Zc 12:10-14 2Co 7:10 |
| 22 | Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God. | Hos 6:1 Hos 14:1 Hos 14:4 |
| 23 | Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel. | Jer 3:6 Jer 10:14-16 Ps 121:1 Ps 121:2 Isa 44:9 Isa 45:20 Isa 46:7 Isa 46:8 Ezk 20:28 Jon 2:8 Jon 2:9 |
| 24 | But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. | Jer 11:13 Ezk 16:61 Ezk 16:63 Hos 2:8 Hos 9:10 Hos 10:6 |
| 25 | Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God. | Jer 2:26 Jer 6:26 Ezr 9:6-15 Ps 109:29 Isa 50:11 Lam 5:16 Ezk 7:18 Dn 12:2 Ro 6:21 |
