Jeremiah 3:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁰ For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ 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

²⁰ But as a woman betrays her lover, so you, people of Israel, have betrayed me, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ 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

²⁰ But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:20 Cross References

Isaiah 24:16

O LORD, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, and give glory to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old faithful, amen.

Isaiah 48:8

6 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.

Jeremiah 12:1

Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? Is it as a bird died throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all the beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.

Jeremiah 5:11

9 And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.

Hosea 3:1

But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for thy people are as they that contradict the priest.

Hosea 5:7

5 I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

Hosea 6:7

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

Malachi 2:11

And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb: