Parallel Verses
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.
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,
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 backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her lewdness, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned to me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: 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 thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered a meat-offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy acts of lewdness, and with thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit of it, and the goodness of it; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Ezekiel 16:17
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and hast made to thyself images of men, and hast committed lewdness 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 judgment upon her.
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth to them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.