Jeremiah 3:1-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 God calleth his people unto repentance. 14 He promiseth the restitution of his Church. 20 He reproveth Judah and Israel, comparing them to a woman disobedient to her husband.
1 They [a]say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return again unto her? shall not this land [b]be polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many [c]lovers: yet [d]turn again to me, saith the Lord.
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and behold, where thou hast not played the harlot: thou hast sat waiting for them in the ways, as the [e]Arabian in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms, and with thy malice.
3 Therefore the showers have been restrained, and the [f]latter rain came not, and thou haddest a [g]whore’s forehead: thou wouldest not be ashamed.
4 Didst thou not still cry [h]unto me, Thou art my father, and the guide of my youth?
5 Will he keep his anger forever? will he reserve it to the end? thus hast thou spoken, but thou doest evil, even more and more.
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- Jeremiah 3:1 According as it is written, Deut. 24:4.
- Jeremiah 3:1 If he take such one to wife again.
- Jeremiah 3:1 That is, with idols, and with them whom thou hast put thy confidence in.
- Jeremiah 3:1 And I will not cast thee off, but receive thee, according to my mercy.
- Jeremiah 3:2 Which dwelleth in tents and waiteth for them that pass by to spoil them.
- Jeremiah 3:3 As God threatened by his Law, Deut. 28:24.
- Jeremiah 3:3 Thou wouldest never be ashamed of thine acts and repent: and this impudency is common to idolaters, which will not give off, though they be never so manifestly convicted.
- Jeremiah 3:4 He showeth that the wicked in their miseries will cry unto God and use outward prayer as the godly do, but because they turn not from their evil, they are not heard, Isa. 58:3, 4.
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