1467 - Jeremiah 3 part 1
Jeremiah Chapter 3 part 1
“If a man divorces a woman, and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land.
But, you …have prostituted yourself, with many lovers, so why are you trying to come back, to me?” says the Lord.
“Look at the shrines, on every hilltop.
Is there any place, that you have not defiled, by your adultery, with other gods?
You sit, like a prostitute, beside the road, waiting for a customer.
You sit, alone, like a nomad, in the desert.
You have polluted the land, with your prostitution, and with your wickedness.
That’s why, even the spring rains, have failed.
For you are a brazen prostitute, and you are completely shameless.
Yet you say to me:
‘Father, you have been my guide, since my youth.
Surely, you won’t be angry, forever!
Surely, you can forget about it!’
So you talk, but you keep on doing …all the evil you can.”
During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me:
“Have you seen what fickle Israel has done?
Like a wife, who commits adultery, Israel has worshiped other gods, on every hill, and under every green tree.
Still, I thought,
‘After she has done all this, she will return to me.’
But she did not return, and her faithless sister, Judah, saw this.
She saw that I divorced faithless Israel, because of her adultery.
But, that treacherous sister, Judah, had no fear, and now she, too, has left me, and given herself to prostitution.
Israel treated it all so lightly—she thought nothing of committing adultery, by worshiping idols made of wood and stone.
So now, the land has been polluted.
But despite all this, her faithless sister, Judah, has never, sincerely, returned to me.
She has only pretended, to be sorry.
I, the Lord, have spoken!”
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Praise be to God!
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