Jeremiah 3:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

Acknowledge

And hast scattered

Jeremiah 3:2

Jeremiah 2:20

Ezekiel 16:15

General references

Isaiah 1:19

Isaiah 17:7

Bible References

Acknowledge

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

Now when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have put before you, if the thought of them comes back to your minds, when you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has sent you,

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

And hast scattered

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.

General references

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.