Jeremiah:3-4

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ylt @Jeremiah:3:1 @Saying , 'Lo , one sendeth away his wife , And she hath gone from him , And she hath been to another man , Doth he turn back unto her again ? Greatly defiled is not that land ? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers , And turn again to Me , an affirmation of Jehovah . ylt @Jeremiah:3:2 @Lift thine eyes to the high places , and see , Where hast thou not been lain with ? On the ways thou hast sat for them , As an Arab in a wilderness , And thou defilest the land , By thy fornications , and by thy wickedness . ylt @Jeremiah:3:3 @And withheld are showers , and gathered rain hath not been . The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast , Thou hast refused to be ashamed . ylt @Jeremiah:3:4 @Hast thou not henceforth called to Me , 'My father , Thou [art ] the leader of my youth ? ylt @Jeremiah:3:5 @Doth He keep to the age ? watch for ever ?' Lo , these things thou hast spoken , And thou dost the evil things , and prevailest . ylt @Jeremiah:3:6 @And Jehovah saith unto me , in the days of Josiah the king , 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done ? She is going on every high mountain , and unto the place of every green tree , and committeth fornication there . ylt @Jeremiah:3:7 @And I say , after her doing all these , Unto Me thou dost turn back , and she hath not turned back , and see [it ] doth her treacherous sister Judah . ylt @Jeremiah:3:8 @And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery ) I have sent her away , and I give the bill of her divorce unto her , that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared , and goeth and committeth fornication -- she also . ylt @Jeremiah:3:9 @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 . ylt @Jeremiah:3:10 @And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart , but with falsehood , an affirmation of Jehovah .' ylt @Jeremiah:3:11 @And Jehovah saith unto me : 'Justified herself hath backsliding Israel , More than treacherous Judah . ylt @Jeremiah:3:12 @Go , and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north , and hast said , Turn back , O backsliding Israel , An affirmation of Jehovah ! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you , For I [am ] kind , an affirmation of Jehovah , I watch not to the age . ylt @Jeremiah:3:13 @Only , know thine iniquity , For against Jehovah thy God thou hast transgressed , And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers , Under every green tree , And to My voice thou hast not hearkened , An affirmation of Jehovah . ylt @Jeremiah:3:14 @Turn back , O backsliding sons , An affirmation of Jehovah . For I have ruled over you , And taken you one of a city , and two of a family , And have brought you to Zion , ylt @Jeremiah:3:15 @And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart , And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding . ylt @Jeremiah:3:16 @And it hath come to pass , when ye are multiplied , And have been fruitful in the land , In those days -- an affirmation of Jehovah , They say not any more , 'The ark of the covenant of Jehovah ,' Nor doth it go up on the heart , Nor do they remember concerning it , Nor do they inspect , nor is it made again . ylt @Jeremiah:3:17 @At that time they cry to Jerusalem , 'O throne of Jehovah ,' And gathered unto her hath been all the nations , For the name of Jehovah , to Jerusalem , Nor do they go any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart . ylt @Jeremiah:3:18 @In those days do the house of Judah Go unto the house of Israel , And they come together from the land of the south , unto the land That I caused your fathers to inherit . ylt @Jeremiah:3:19 @And I have said , How do I put thee among the sons , And give to thee a desirable land , A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations , And I say , My father -- ye do call to Me , And from after Me ye do not turn back . ylt @Jeremiah:3:20 @But -- a woman hath deceived her friend , So ye have dealt treacherously with Me , O house of Israel , an affirmation of Jehovah . ylt @Jeremiah:3:21 @A voice on high places is heard -- weeping , Supplications of the sons of Israel , For they have made perverse their way , They have forgotten Jehovah their God . ylt @Jeremiah:3:22 @Turn back , O backsliding sons , I cause your backslidings to cease . -- Behold us , we have come to Thee , For Thou [art ] Jehovah our God . ylt @Jeremiah:3:23 @Surely in vain from the heights , The multitude of mountains -- Surely in Jehovah our God [is ] the salvation of Israel . ylt @Jeremiah:3:24 @And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth , Their flock and their herd , Their sons and their daughters . ylt @Jeremiah:3:25 @We have lain down in our shame , and cover us doth our confusion , For against Jehovah our God we have sinned , We , and our fathers , from our youth even unto this day , Nor have we hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God ! ylt @Jeremiah:4:1 @If thou dost turn back , O Israel , An affirmation of Jehovah , unto Me turn back , And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face , Then thou dost not bemoan . ylt @Jeremiah:4:2 @And thou hast sworn -- Jehovah liveth , In truth , in judgment , and in righteousness , And blessed themselves in Him have nations , And in Him they boast themselves . ylt @Jeremiah:4:3 @For thus said Jehovah , To the man of Judah , and to Jerusalem : Till for yourselves tillage , And do not sow unto the thorns . ylt @Jeremiah:4:4 @Be circumcised to Jehovah , And turn aside the foreskins of your heart , O man of Judah , and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem , Lest My fury go out as fire , and hath burned , And there is none quenching , Because of the evil of your doings . ylt @Jeremiah:4:5 @Declare in Judah , and in Jerusalem sound , And say ye , 'Blow a trumpet in the land ,' Call ye fully , and say ye : 'Be gathered , and we go in to the fenced city .' ylt @Jeremiah:4:6 @Lift up an ensign Zionward , Strengthen yourselves , stand not still , For evil I am bringing in from the north , And a great destruction . ylt @Jeremiah:4:7 @Gone up hath a lion from his thicket , And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed , He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation , Thy cities are laid waste , without inhabitant . ylt @Jeremiah:4:8 @For this , gird on sackcloth , lament and howl , For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us . ylt @Jeremiah:4:9 @And it hath come to pass , in that day , An affirmation of Jehovah : 'Perish doth the heart of the king , And the heart of the princes , And astonished have been the priests , And the prophets do wonder .' ylt @Jeremiah:4:10 @And I say , 'Ah , Lord Jehovah , Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem , saying , Peace is for you , And struck hath a sword unto the soul !' ylt @Jeremiah:4:11 @At that time it is said of this people , And of Jerusalem : 'A dry wind of high places in the wilderness ,' The way of the daughter of My people , (Not for winnowing , nor for cleansing ,) ylt @Jeremiah:4:12 @A full wind from these doth come for Me , Now , also , I speak judgments with them . ylt @Jeremiah:4:13 @Lo , as clouds he cometh up , And as a hurricane his chariots , Lighter than eagles have been his horses , Wo to us , for we have been spoiled . ylt @Jeremiah:4:14 @Wash from evil thy heart , O Jerusalem , That thou mayest be saved , Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength ? ylt @Jeremiah:4:15 @For a voice is declaring from Dan , And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim . ylt @Jeremiah:4:16 @Make ye mention to the nations , Lo , sound ye to Jerusalem : 'Besiegers are coming from the land afar off , And they give forth against cities of Judah their voice . ylt @Jeremiah:4:17 @As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about , For with Me she hath been rebellious , An affirmation of Jehovah .' ylt @Jeremiah:4:18 @Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee , This [is ] thy vexation , for [it is ] bitter , For it hath struck unto thy heart . ylt @Jeremiah:4:19 @My bowels , my bowels ! I am pained [at ] the walls of my heart , Make a noise for me doth My heart , I am not silent , For the voice of a trumpet I have heard , O my soul -- a shout of battle ! ylt @Jeremiah:4:20 @Destruction on destruction is proclaimed , For spoiled hath been all the land , Suddenly spoiled have been my tents , In a moment -- my curtains . ylt @Jeremiah:4:21 @Till when do I see an ensign ? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet ? ylt @Jeremiah:4:22 @For my people [are ] foolish , me they have not known , Foolish sons [are ] they , yea , they [are ] not intelligent , Wise [are ] they to do evil , And to do good they have not known . ylt @Jeremiah:4:23 @I looked [to ] the land , and lo , waste and void , And unto the heavens , and their light is not . ylt @Jeremiah:4:24 @I have looked [to ] the mountains , And lo , they are trembling . And all the hills moved themselves lightly . ylt @Jeremiah:4:25 @I have looked , and lo , man is not , And all fowls of the heavens have fled . ylt @Jeremiah:4:26 @I have looked , and lo , The fruitful place [is ] a wilderness , And all its cities have been broken down , Because of Jehovah , Because of the fierceness of His anger . ylt @Jeremiah:4:27 @For thus said Jehovah : All the land is a desolation , but a completion I make not . ylt @Jeremiah:4:28 @For this doth the land mourn , And black have been the heavens above , because I have spoken -- I have purposed , And I have not repented , Nor do I turn back from it . ylt @Jeremiah:4:29 @From the voice of the horseman , And of him shooting with the bow , all the city is fleeing , They have come into thickets , And on cliffs they have gone up , All the city is forsaken , And there is no one dwelling in them . ylt @Jeremiah:4:30 @And thou , O spoiled one , what dost thou ? For thou puttest on scarlet , For thou adornest thyself [with ] ornaments of gold . For thou rendest with pain thine eyes , In vain thou dost make thyself fair , Kicked against thee have doting ones , Thy life they do seek . ylt @Jeremiah:4:31 @For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard , Distress , as of one bringing forth a first-born , The voice of the daughter of Zion , She bewaileth herself , she spreadeth out her hands , 'Wo to me now , for weary is my soul of slayers !' ylt @Jeremiah:5:1 @Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem , And see , I pray you , and know , And seek in her broad places , if ye find a man , If there be one doing judgment , seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her .

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