Jeremiah 3 Saying, `Lo, one sends away his wife, And she has gone from him, And she has been to another man, Does he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And you have committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Yahweh."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Saying, `Lo, one sends away his wife, And she has gone from him, And she has been to another man, Does he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And you have committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Yahweh." ² Lift your eyes to the high places, and see, Where have you not been lain with? On the ways you have sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And you defile the land, By your fornications, and by your wickedness." ³ And withheld are showers, and gathered rain has not been. The forehead of a whorish woman you have, You have refused to be ashamed." ⁴ Have you not henceforth called to Me, `My father, You [are] the leader of my youth? ⁵ Does He keep to the eon? watch for ever?' Lo, these things you have spoken, And you do the evil things, and prevail." ⁶ And Yahweh said unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, `Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and commits fornication there." ⁷ And I say, after her doing all these, Unto Me you do turn back, and she has not turned back, and see [it] does her treacherous sister Judah." 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 has not feared, and goes and commits fornication--she also." ⁹ And it has come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she commits fornication with stone and with wood." ¹⁰ And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Yahweh.'" ¹¹ And Yahweh said unto me:`Justified herself has backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah." ¹² Go, and you have proclaimed these words toward the north, and have said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Yahweh! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I [am] kind, an affirmation of Yahweh, I watch not to the eon." ¹³ Only, know your iniquity, For against Yahweh your Elohim you have transgressed, And you do scatter your ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice you have not hearkened, An affirmation of Yahweh." ¹⁴ Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of Yahweh. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion, ¹⁵ And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding." ¹⁶ And it has come to pass, when you are multiplied, And have been fruitful in the land, In those days--an affirmation of Yahweh, They say not any more, `The ark of the covenant of Yahweh,' Nor does it go up on the heart, Nor do they remember concerning it, Nor do they inspect, nor is it made again." ¹⁷ At that time they cry to Jerusalem, `O throne of Yahweh,' And gathered unto her has been all the nations, For the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem, Nor do they go any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart." 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." ¹⁹ And I have said, How do I put you among the sons, And give to you a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father--you do call to Me, And from after Me you do not turn back." ²⁰ But--a woman has deceived her friend, So you have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Yahweh." 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 Yahweh their Elohim." ²² Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. --Behold us, we have come to You, For You [are] Yahweh our Elohim." ²³ Surely in vain from the heights, The multitude of mountains--Surely in Yahweh our Elohim [is] the salvation of Israel." ²⁴ And the shameful thing has devoured The labor of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters." ²⁵ We have lain down in our shame, and cover us does our confusion, For against Yahweh our Elohim we have sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, Nor have we hearkened to the voice of Yahweh our Elohim!"