Jeremiah 3:1

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Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him to marry another,
can he ever return to her?
Wouldn’t such a land become totally defiled?
But you!
You have played the prostitute with many partners—
can you return to Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4

“If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something improper about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago I broke your yoke;
I tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you lie down like a prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:26

You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to provoke Me to anger.

Jeremiah 3:9

Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return, Israel—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will return to Me,
if you remove your detestable idols
from My presence
and do not waver,

Ezekiel 16:28-29

Then you engaged in prostitution with the Assyrian men because you were not satisfied. Even though you did this with them, you were still not satisfied.

Zechariah 1:3

So tell the people: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to Me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

Leviticus 18:24-28

“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.

Deuteronomy 22:21

they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

Judges 19:2

But she was unfaithful to him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She was there for a period of four months.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 55:6-9

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you to a fertile land
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;
you made My inheritance detestable.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you protest, “I am not defiled;
I have not followed the Baals”?
Look at your behavior in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,

Jeremiah 3:12-14

Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say:

Return, unfaithful Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not look on you with anger,
for I am unfailing in My love.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not be angry forever.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, you faithless children.
I will heal your unfaithfulness.
“Here we are, coming to You,
for You are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem,
so that you will be delivered.
How long will you harbor
malicious thoughts within you?

Jeremiah 8:4-6

“You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says:

Do people fall and not get up again?
If they turn away, do they not return?

Ezekiel 23:4-49

The older one was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah represents Samaria and Oholibah represents Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them: As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel?

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, He said this to him:

Go and marry a promiscuous wife
and have children of promiscuity,
for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity
by abandoning the Lord.

Hosea 2:5-7

Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.
For she thought, “I will go after my lovers,
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”

Hosea 14:1-4

Israel, return to Yahweh your God,
for you have stumbled in your sin.

Micah 2:10

Get up and leave,
for this is not your place of rest,
because defilement brings destruction—
a grievous destruction!

Luke 15:16-24

He longed to eat his fill from the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him any.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Jeremiah 3:1

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

Shall not that

Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

I brought you to a fertile land
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;
you made My inheritance detestable.

“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.

Get up and leave,
for this is not your place of rest,
because defilement brings destruction—
a grievous destruction!

But thou hast

For long ago I broke your yoke;
I tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you lie down like a prostitute.

But she was unfaithful to him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She was there for a period of four months.

You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to provoke Me to anger.

The older one was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah represents Samaria and Oholibah represents Jerusalem.

Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.
For she thought, “I will go after my lovers,
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”

Yet return

If you return, Israel—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will return to Me,
if you remove your detestable idols
from My presence
and do not waver,

“You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says:

Do people fall and not get up again?
If they turn away, do they not return?

But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.

Israel, return to Yahweh your God,
for you have stumbled in your sin.

So tell the people: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to Me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

He longed to eat his fill from the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him any.

General references

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

They said, “Moses permitted us to write divorce papers and send her away.”