Parallel Verses
World English Bible
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.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Holman Bible
I thought: After she has done all these things, she will return to Me.
International Standard Version
I thought, "After she has done all these things, she will return to me.' But she didn't return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw this.
American Standard Version
And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Amplified
I thought, ‘After she has done all these things she will return to Me’; but she did not return, and her treacherous (faithless) sister Judah saw it.
Bible in Basic English
And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.
Darby Translation
And I said, After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw it.
Julia Smith Translation
And saying after she did all these, Thou shalt turn back to me. And she turned not back; and her faithless sister Judah will see it
King James 2000
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn you unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I thought, 'After her doing all these [things] to me she will return,' but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw [it].
Modern King James verseion
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to Me! But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hast thou seen also, when she had done all this, how I said unto her that she should turn again unto me, and yet she is not returned? Judah, that unfaithful sister of hers also saw this:
NET Bible
Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did.
New Heart English Bible
I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she did not return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
The Emphasized Bible
And I said, after she had been doing all these things, Unto me, shall thou return? and she returned not, - and her treacherous sister Judah saw it!
Webster
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I say, after her doing all these, Unto Me thou dost turn back, and she hath not turned back, and see it doth her treacherous sister Judah.
Themes
Condescension of God » Expostulates with backsliding israel
Jews, the » National character of » Unfaithful to covenant engagements
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 3:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Gives Israel A Letter Of Divorce
6 Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute. 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. 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.
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:46
Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
2 Kings 17:13-14
Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
2 Chronicles 30:6-12
So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, "You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Jeremiah 3:8-11
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.
Ezekiel 23:2-4
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Hosea 6:1-4
"Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.