Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
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The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?
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Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:46
And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
2 Kings 17:13-14
Yet the LORDwarned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
2 Chronicles 30:6-12
So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Jeremiah 3:8-11
She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
Ezekiel 23:2-4
"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
Hosea 6:1-4
"Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
Hosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.