Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
And it happened, from the folly of her whoredom, she defiled the land and fornicated with stones and stocks.
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 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 for which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and gave a bill of divorce to her, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she went and whored, she also. 9 And it happened, from the folly of her whoredom, she defiled the land and fornicated with stones and stocks. 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, says Jehovah.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 2:27
saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave me birth. For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise and save us!
Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, even they, are your lot; even to them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a food offering. Should I be consoled over these?
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.
Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.
Ezekiel 16:17
And you have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made images of males, and fornicated with them.
Ezekiel 23:10
They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women, and they executed judgment on her.
Hosea 4:12
My people seek advice from their wooden idols, and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to go astray, and they have gone lusting away from under their God.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to the wood. Awake! To a dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath is in its midst.