Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she
King James Version
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Holman Bible
Indifferent to
International Standard Version
She took her fornication so lightly that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
American Standard Version
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Amplified
Because of the thoughtlessness of Israel’s prostitution [her immorality mattered little to her], she desecrated the land and committed adultery with [idols of] stones and trees.
Bible in Basic English
So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.
Darby Translation
And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Julia Smith Translation
And it was her fornication being light, and she will defile the land, and she will commit adultery with stones and with woods.
King James 2000
And it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with trees.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And it was because of the frivolity of her fornication that she defiled the land and committed adultery with the stone and with the tree.
Modern King James verseion
And it happened, from the folly of her whoredom, she defiled the land and fornicated with stones and stocks.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, and the noise of her whoredom hath defiled the whole land. For she hath committed her adultery with stones and stocks.
NET Bible
Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.
New Heart English Bible
It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
The Emphasized Bible
Yea though it had come to pass that through the levity of her unchastity, she had defiled the land, - and committed adultery with Stone and with Tree,
Webster
And it came to pass through the lightness of her lewdness, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
World English Bible
It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Youngs Literal Translation
And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Gives Israel A Letter Of Divorce
8
And I saw when for all the causes by which rebellious Israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her rebellious sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
9 Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she
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Cross References
Jeremiah 2:27
saying to a piece of firewood, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and deliver us.
Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even unto them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a present. Should I not avenge these things?
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places and see if there is anywhere thou hast not been ravished. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they shall become altogether carnal and foolish. The stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Ezekiel 16:17
Thou hast taken likewise the vessels of thy beauty of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee and made to thyself images of men and didst commit whoredom with them
Ezekiel 23:10
These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women, for they had executed judgments upon her.
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel of their wooden idol, and their stick declares unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring under their gods.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Can it ever teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.