1468 - Jeremiah 3 part 2

Jeremiah Chapter 3 part 2


Then the Lord said to me, 


“Even faithless Israel is less guilty, than treacherous Judah! 


Therefore, go and give this message to Israel.


This is what the Lord says:


“O Israel, my faithless people,

come home to me again, because I am merciful.


I will not be angry with you, forever.


Only acknowledge your guilt.


Admit that you rebelled against the Lord, your God, and that you committed adultery against him, by worshiping idols, under every green tree.


Confess that you refused to listen, to my voice.


I, the Lord, have spoken!


“Return home, you wayward children,” says the Lord,…

“because, I am your master.


I will bring you back, to the land of Israel—one from this town, and two from that family—from wherever you are scattered…

I will bring you home.


And I will give you shepherds, after my own heart, who will guide you, with knowledge and understanding.


“And when your land is once more filled with people,” says the Lord, “you will no longer wish, for ‘the good old days’ …when you possessed the Ark, of the Lord’s Covenant. 


You will not miss those days, or even remember them, and there will be no need to rebuild the Ark. 


In that day, Jerusalem will be known as ‘The Throne of the Lord.’ 


All nations will come there, to honor the Lord. 


They will no longer, stubbornly, follow their own evil desires. 


In those days, the people of Judah and Israel will return, together, from exile in the north. 


They will return, to the land, that I gave, to your ancestors, as an inheritance, forever.


“I thought to myself,…


‘I would love to treat you, as my own children!’


I wanted nothing more, than to give you this beautiful land—

the finest possession, in all the world.


I looked forward, to your calling me ‘Father,’


…and I wanted you, to never turn away from me.


But, you have been unfaithful, to me, …you people of Israel!


You have been like a faithless wife, who leaves her husband.


I, the Lord, have spoken.”


Voices are heard, high on the windswept mountains, …it is the weeping and pleading, of Israel’s people.


For they have chosen crooked paths, and have forgotten the Lord their God.


“My wayward children,” says the Lord, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.”


“Yes, we’re coming,” the people reply, “because you are the Lord, our God.


Our worship of idols on the hills,

and our religious orgies, on the mountains, are a delusion.


Only, in the Lord our God, will Israel ever find salvation.


From childhood we have watched, as everything that our ancestors worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters—was squandered, on a delusion.


Let us, now, lie down, in shame,

and cover ourselves, with dishonor, for we, and our ancestors, have sinned, against the Lord our God.


From our childhood, to this day,

we have never obeyed him.”  


The Holy Bible 

New Living Translation 


Jeremiah 3:11–25


Praise be to God!



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