Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also. 9 And it was her fornication being light, and she will defile the land, and she will commit adultery with stones and with woods. 10 And also in all this her faithless sister Judah turned not back to me with all the heart, but in falsehood, says Jehovah.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us.
Isaiah 57:6
In the smoothnesses of the torrent they thy portion, they thy lot; also to them thou didst pour out a libation, thou didst bring up a gift Shall I be comforted with these?
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 2:7
And I will bring you to the land of Carmel, to eat its fruit and its goodness; and ye will come and defile my land, and ye set mine inheritance for an abomination.
Jeremiah 10:8
And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.
Ezekiel 16:17
And thou wilt take all thy ornaments from my gold and from my silver, which I gave to thee, and thou wilt make to thee images of a male and commit fornication with them.
Ezekiel 23:10
They uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters and slew them with the sword: and she will be a name to women, and they did judgments upon her.
Hosea 4:12
My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God.
Habakkuk 2:19
Wo! to him saying to the wood, Awake; and to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach. Being overlaid with gold and silver, and not any spirit in its midst.