From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away; I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.”
Jeremiah 3:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Surely, as a wife treacherously and faithlessly departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously and faithlessly with Me, O house of Israel, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible But as a woman betrays her lover, so you, people of Israel, have betrayed me, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version But, in the same way that a woman spurns her lover, so also has the house of Israel spurned me, says the Lord." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord. |
From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away; I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.”
You have never heard; you have never known; from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would act very treacherously and that from birth you were called a rebel.
You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly faithless to me, says the Lord.
The Lord said to me again, “Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord, for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.
But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.