web Jeremiah:3:6-4:4
web@Jeremiah:3:6 @ Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
web@Jeremiah:3:7 @ I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she didn't return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
web@Jeremiah:3:8 @ I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
web@Jeremiah:3:9 @ It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
web@Jeremiah:3:10 @ Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says Yahweh.
web@Jeremiah:3:11 @ Yahweh said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
web@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep anger forever.
web@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says Yahweh."
web@Jeremiah:3:14 @ "Return, backsliding children," says Yahweh; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
web@Jeremiah:3:15 @ I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
web@Jeremiah:3:16 @ It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days," says Yahweh, "they shall say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of Yahweh!' neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.
web@Jeremiah:3:17 @ At that time they shall call Jerusalem 'The throne of Yahweh;' and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem. Neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
web@Jeremiah:3:18 @ In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
web@Jeremiah:3:19 @ "But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'
web@Jeremiah:3:20 @ "Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says Yahweh.
web@Jeremiah:3:21 @ A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
web@Jeremiah:3:22 @ Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
web@Jeremiah:3:23 @ Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
web@Jeremiah:3:24 @ But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
web@Jeremiah:3:25 @ Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God."
web@Jeremiah:4:1 @ "If you will return, Israel," says Yahweh, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;
web@Jeremiah:4:2 @ and you shall swear, 'As Yahweh lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
web@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.
web@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
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