Jeremiah 3:1 Cross References - CLV

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."

²⁴ Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways. For in all of these the nations which I am dismissing before your face are defiled. ²⁵ Since the land is unclean I shall visit its depravity on it, and the land shall vomit out its dwellers. ²⁶ As for you, you will observe My statutes and My judgments, and not do any of these abhorrences, either the native or the sojourner sojourning in your mids. ²⁷ (for the men of the land who were before you have done all these abhorrences, and the land is unclean), ²⁸ so that the land shall not vomit you out when you defile it, just as it vomited out the nations which were before you.

²⁹ Yet from there you will seek Yahweh your Elohim and find Him when you inquire for Him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰ In your distress, when all these things find you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your Elohim and hearken to His voice. ³¹ For Yahweh your Elohim is a compassionate El. He shall neither neglect you nor bring ruin on you, nor shall He forget the covenant of your fathers about which He had sworn to them.

²¹ then they will bring forth the maiden to the portal of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her with stones so that she dies, for she committed decadence in Israel so as to prostitute herself while in her father's house. Thus you will eradicate the evil from among you.

¹ When a man takes a wife and possesses her, and it comes to be that she should not find favor in his eyes, because he has found in her the nakedness of anything, then he would write for her a scroll of divorce, give it into her hand and send her away from his house. ² When she goes forth from his house, goes and becomes another man's, ³ and the man (the latter one) dislikes her, then he would write for her a scroll of divorce, give it into her hand and send her away from his house. Or when the man should die (the latter one who took her to himself as a wife), ⁴ then her possessor (the former one who had sent her away) shall not be able to reverse himself to take her back to become his wife after she had had herself defiled, for that is an abhorrence before Yahweh. You shall not bring about sin in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment.

² and commit whoredom against him does his concubine, and she goes from him unto the house of her father, unto Beth-Lehem-Judah, and is there days--four months.

⁵ and the land is polluted under its dwellers. For they trespass against the laws; they vary the statute; they annul the covenant eonian.

⁶ Inquire for Yahweh while He is to be found; call Him while He comes to be near. ⁷ Forsake shall the wicked one his way, and the lawless man his devices, and he shall return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for he will increasingly pardon your sins." ⁸ For not as My devices are your devices, and not as your ways are My ways,averring is Yahweh." ⁹ For as the heavens are loftier than the earth, so are My ways loftier than your ways, and my devices than your devices."

⁷ Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And you come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination."

²⁰ For from of old you have broken your yoke, Drawn away your bands, and say, `I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, You are wandering--a harlot."

²³ How say you, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See your way in a valley, know what you have done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,

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."

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,

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."

¹ If you do turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Yahweh, unto Me turn back, And if you do turn aside Your abominations from My face, Then you do not bemoan."

¹⁴ Wash from evil your heart, O Jerusalem, That you may be saved, Till when do you lodge in your heart Thoughts of your strength?

⁴ And you have said unto them:Thus said Yahweh, Do they fall, and not rise? Does he turn back, and not return? ⁵ Wherefore has this people of Jerusalem Turned back--a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back." ⁶ I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man has repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one has turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle."

²⁶ And do go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt, Your neighbors--great of appetite! And you do multiply your whoredoms, To provoke Me to anger."

²⁸ And you go a-whoring unto sons of Asshur, Without your being satisfied, And you do go a-whoring with them, And also--you have not been satisfied." ²⁹ And you do multiply your whoredoms On the land of Canaan--toward Chaldea, And even with this you have not been satisfied."

⁴ And their names [are] Aholah the elder, And Aholibah her sister, And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As to their names--Samaria [is] Aholah, And Jerusalem [is] Aholibah." ⁵ And go a-whoring does Aholah under Me, And she dotes on her lovers, On the neighboring Assyrians, ⁶ Clothed with blue--governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses, ⁷ And she gives her whoredoms on them, The choice of the sons of Asshur, All of them--even all on whom she doted, By all their idols she has been defiled." ⁸ And her whoredoms out of Egypt she has not forsaken, For with her they lay in her youth, And they dealt with the loves of her virginity, And they pour out their whoredoms on her." ⁹ Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted." ¹⁰ They have uncovered her nakedness, Her sons and her daughters they have taken, And her by sword they have slain, And she is a name for women, And judgments they have done with her." ¹¹ And see does her sister Aholibah, And she makes her doting love more corrupt than she, And her whoredoms than the whoredoms of her sister." ¹² On sons of Asshur she has doted, Governors and prefects, Neighboring ones--clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them." ¹³ And I see that she has been defiled, One way [is] to them both." ¹⁴ And she does add unto her whoredoms, And she sees graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead, ¹⁵ Girded with a girdle on their loins, Dyed attire spread out on their heads, The appearance of rulers--all of them, The likeness of sons of Babylon, Chaldea is the land of their birth." ¹⁶ And she dotes on them at the sight of her eyes, And sends messengers to them, to Chaldea." ¹⁷ And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them." ¹⁸ And she reveals her whoredoms, And she reveals her nakedness, And alienated is My soul from off her, As alienated was My soul from off her sister." ¹⁹ And she multiplies her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt." ²⁰ And she dotes on their paramours, Whose flesh [is] the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses--their issue." ²¹ You look after the wickedness of your youth, In dealing out of Egypt your loves, For the sake of the breasts of your youth." ²² Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I am stirring up your lovers against you, From whom your soul has been alienated, And have brought them in against you from round about." ²³ Sons of Babylon, and of all Chaldea, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, All the sons of Asshur with them, Desirable young men, governors and prefects, All of them--rulers and proclaimed ones, Riding on horses, all of them." ²⁴ And they have come in against you, With arms, rider, and wheel, And with an assembly of peoples; Target, and shield, and helmet, They do set against you round about, And I have set before them judgment, They have judged you in their Judgments." ²⁵ And I have set My jealousy against you, And they have dealt with you in fury, Your nose and your ears they turn aside, And your posterity by sword falls, They, your sons and your daughters do take away, And your posterity is devoured by fire." ²⁶ And they have stripped you of your garments, And have taken your beauteous jewels." ²⁷ And I have caused your wickedness to cease from you, And your whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, And you lift not up your eyes unto them, And Egypt you do not remember again." ²⁸ For thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I am giving you into a hand that you have hated, Into a hand from which you wast alienated." ²⁹ And they have dealt with you in hatred, And they have taken all your labor, And they have left you naked and bare, And revealed has been the nakedness of your whoredoms, And the wickedness of your whoredoms." ³⁰ To do these things to you, In your going a-whoring after nations, Because you have been defiled with their idols, ³¹ In the way of your sister you have walked, And I have given her cup into your hand." ³² Thus said the Lord Yahweh:The cup of your sister you do drink, The deep and the wide one, (You are for laughter and for scorn,) Abundant to contain." ³³ With drunkenness and sorrow you are filled, A cup of astonishment and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria." ³⁴ And you have drunk it, and have drained [it], And its earthen ware you do gnaw, And your own breasts you pluck off, For I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, ³⁵ Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because you have forgotten Me, And you do cast Me behind your back, Even you also bear your wickedness and your whoredoms.'" ³⁶ And Yahweh said unto me, `Son of man, Do you judge Aholah and Aholibah? Declare then to them their abominations." ³⁷ For they have committed adultery, And blood [is] in their hands, With their idols they committed adultery, And also their sons whom they bore to Me, They caused to pass over to them for food." ³⁸ Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted." ³⁹ And in their slaughtering their sons to their idols They also come in unto My sanctuary in that day to pollute it, And lo, thus they have done in the midst of My house, ⁴⁰ And also that they send to men coming from afar, Unto whom a messenger is sent, And lo, they have come in for whom you have washed, Painted your eyes, and put on adornment." ⁴¹ And you have sat on a couch of honor, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it." ⁴² And the voice of a multitude at ease [is] with her, And unto men of the common people are brought in Sabeans from the wilderness, And they put bracelets on their hands, And a beauteous crown on their heads." ⁴³ And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, Now they commit her whoredoms--she also!" ⁴⁴ And they come in unto her, As the coming in unto a whorish woman, So they have come in unto Aholah, And unto Aholibah--the wicked women." ⁴⁵ As to righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, And the judgment of women shedding blood, For they [are] adulteresses, And blood [is] in their hands." ⁴⁶ For thus said the Lord Yahweh:Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling." ⁴⁷ And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn." ⁴⁸ And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness." ⁴⁹ And they have put your wickedness on you, And the sins of your idols you bear, And you have known that I [am] the Lord Yahweh!"

¹¹ Say unto them, I live--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, I delight not in the death of the wicked, But--in the turning of the wicked from his way, And he has lived, Turn back, turn back, from your evil ways, Yea, why do you die, O house of Israel?

² The start of the word of Yahweh by Hosea:And Yahweh is saying to Hosea, Go, take to you a wife of prostitutions and children of prostitutions, for the land is verily committing prostitution rather than following Yahweh."

⁵ For their mother committed prostitution; she who was pregnant with them caused shame. For she had said, I am going after my lovers, who are giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drinks." ⁶ Wherefore, behold Me hedging her way with briars, and I dike her with a stone dike, and she will not find her tracks." ⁷ And she pursues her lovers yet shall not overtake them, and she seeks them yet shall not find them. And she says, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now."

¹ Return, O Israel, unto Yahweh, your Elohim, for you stumble in your depravity." ² Take words with you and return to Yahweh, your Elohim; say to Him:Wilt You bear away all the depravity? Take the good, and we will repay with the fruit of our lips." ³ Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on the horse. Nor shall we still say, Our elohim, to the work of our hands. For in You, the orphan is being shown compassion." ⁴ I will heal their backsliding; I will love them willingly, for My anger is reversed from him."

¹⁰ Rise and go, for this is not your rest; for the sake of uncleanness it will harm, and the cramp will harass."

³ Now you shall say to them, Thus says Yahweh of hosts:Return to Me, (averring is Yahweh of hosts), and I will return to you, says Yahweh of hosts."

¹⁶ And he yearned to be satisfied with the little carob pods which the hogs ate, and no one gave to him." ¹⁷ Now, coming to himself, he averred, 'How many of my father's hired men are being cloyed with bread, yet I am perishing here of famine!" ¹⁸ Rising, I will go to my father and declare to him, "Father, I sinned against heaven and in your sight." ¹⁹ No longer am I worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired men."'" ²⁰ And rising, he came to his father. "Now, at his being still far away, his father perceived him and has compassion, and running, falls on his neck and fondly kisses him." ²¹ Now the son said to him, 'Father, I sinned against heaven and in your sight. No longer am I worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired men.'" ²² Yet the father said to his slaves, 'Quick! Bring forth the first robe, and put it on him, and give him a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet." ²³ And bring the grain-fed calf, sacrifice it, and, eating, we may make merry, ²⁴ for this my son was dead and revives; he was lost and was found.' And they begin to make merry.