Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
A voice was heard upon the naked hills, weepings, supplications of the sons of Israel: for they perverted their way, they forgot Jehovah their God.
New American Standard Bible
The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel;
Because they have perverted their way,
They have
King James Version
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Holman Bible
the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,
for they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.
International Standard Version
"A voice is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the children of Israel because they have perverted their way. They have forgotten the LORD their God."
American Standard Version
A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
Amplified
A voice is heard on the barren heights,
The weeping and pleading of the children of Israel,
Because they have lost their way,
They have [deliberately] forgotten the Lord their God.
Bible in Basic English
A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.
Darby Translation
A voice is heard upon the heights, the weeping supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
King James 2000
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"A voice [is] heard on [the] barren heights, the weeping of the pleas for mercy of the children of Israel, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
Modern King James verseion
A voice was heard on the high places weeping, cryings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And therefore the voice of the children of Israel was heard on every side, weeping and wailing: for they have defiled their way, and forgotten God their LORD.
NET Bible
"A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God.
New Heart English Bible
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 the LORD their God.
The Emphasized Bible
A voice on the bare heights, is heard, The weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel, - Because they have perverted their way, Have forgotten Yahweh their God.
Webster
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.
Themes
Conviction of sin » Examples of » Job
Forgetfulness » Ends in bitter tears
Forgetting God » Ends in bitter tears
Forgetting God » Backsliders are guilty of
Forgetting God » Backsliders guilty of
Repentance » Examples of » Job
Interlinear
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 3:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call For Repentance
20 Surely a wife acting faithlessly by her friend, so ye acted faithlessly against me, O house of Israel, says Jehovah. 21 A voice was heard upon the naked hills, weepings, supplications of the sons of Israel: for they perverted their way, they forgot Jehovah their God. 22 Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 15:2
He went up to the house and to Dibon, the heights, to weep: over Nebo and Medeba shall Moab wail: upon all their heads baldness; every beard cut off.
Isaiah 17:10
For thou didst forget the God of thy salvation, and didst not remember the rock of thy fortress, for this, thou shalt plant pleasant plants, and thou shalt sow it with vine shoots of the stranger.
Jeremiah 2:32
Will a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her girdles? and my people forgat me days of no numbering.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes upon the naked hills and see where thou wert not lain with. Upon the ways thou didst sit for them as the ravens in the desert; and thou wilt defile the land with thy fornications and with thine evil
Jeremiah 31:9
In weeping will they come, and I will lead them in mercies; I will cause them to go to the streams of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it: for I was to Israel for a father, and Ephraim he is my first-born.
Numbers 22:32
And the messenger of Jehovah will say to him, For what didst thou strike thine ass this three beats? behold, I came forth for an adversary, for the way is perverse before me.
Job 33:27
He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;
Proverbs 10:9
He going in integrity shall go confidently: and he perverting his ways shall be known.
Proverbs 19:3
The folly of man will subvert his way: and his heart will be angry against Jehovah.
Jeremiah 30:15-17
Why wilt thou cry for thy breaking? thy pain is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: thy sins were strong, I did these things to thee.
Jeremiah 31:18-20
Hearing, I heard Ephraim being thrust away: Thou didst correct me, and I shall be corrected as a calf not being taught: turn me back and I shall be turned back, for thou Jehovah my God.
Jeremiah 50:4-5
In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God.
Ezekiel 7:16
And they escaping, escaped, and they were on the mountains as doves of the valleys, all of them slain, a man for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 23:35
For this, thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because thou didst forget me, and thou wilt cast me behind thy back, and also bear thou thy wickedness and thy fornications
Hosea 8:14
And Israel will forget him making him, and he will build temples; and Judah multiplied fortified cities: and I sent a fire upon his cities and it will consume its palaces.
Hosea 13:6
According to their pasture, and they will be satiated; they were satiated, and their heart will be lifted up: for this they forgat me.
Micah 3:9
Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness.
Zechariah 12:10-14
And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.