Jeremiah 3:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

If a man

Deuteronomy 24:1

Shall not that

Micah 2:10

But thou hast

Hosea 2:5

Yet return

General references

Isaiah 55:8

Ezekiel 16:32

Mark 10:4

Bible References

If a man

When a man marries a woman and later decides he does not love her because he found something he does not like about her he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house.

Shall not that

Because she was not concerned about her prostitution. She polluted the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its produce. You came and made my land unclean. You made my heritage disgusting.

Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations that I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.

The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.

Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction.

But thou hast

Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your bonds, and said that you would not be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.

they will take the girl to the doorway of her father's house. The men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.

She was unfaithful to him and went to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah. She was there four whole months.

You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.

Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

When Jehovah first spoke through Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go and marry an adulterous wife and have children with her for the land commits flagrant adultery. They have abandoned Jehovah.

Their mother played the harlot. She that conceived them acted shamefully! For she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

Yet return

Go and proclaim this message to the north: 'Come back, unfaithful Israel. It is Jehovah speaking. I will no longer frown on you because I am merciful,' declares Jehovah. 'I will no longer be angry with you.

Jehovah says: If you come back, Israel, if you come back to me, if you take your disgusting idols out of my sight and you do not stray from me,

Say to them: 'This is what Jehovah says: When someone falls, he gets back up. When someone turns away from me, he returns.'

From there you will seek Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being. And you will find him!

Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Say to them: 'As I am alive! Declares the Lord Jehovah. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Only that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'

Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Tell them, Jehovah of Hosts has said: Jehovah of Hosts says return to me and I will return to you.

He wanted to eat the Carob bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat.

General references

My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares Jehovah.

You are an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.

They said: Moses allowed us to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.