Jeremiah 3:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not such a land be greatly polluted? You have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you return to me? says the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THAT IS to say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he return to her again? [Of course not!] Would not that land [where such a thing happened] be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot [against Me] with many lovers–yet would you now return to Me? says the Lord [or do you even think to return to Me?]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹ If a man divorces his wife, and after she leaves him marries another, can he return to her again? Wouldn’t such an act completely corrupt the land? Yet you have prostituted yourself with many lovers. Would you return to me? declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ "It is commonly said: 'If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.' So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? Shall not that woman be polluted and defiled? But thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers. Nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.

Jeremiah 3:1 Cross References

Psalm 106:38

they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds, and you said, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled and prostituted yourself.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, “I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals”? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done: a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruits and its good things. But when you entered you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.

Jeremiah 22:20

Go up to Lebanon and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are crushed.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, O faithless children, I will heal your faithlessness. “Here we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 3:9

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encompasses a man.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, if you return to me, if you remove your abominations from my presence and do not waver,

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has no one to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Ezekiel 16:26

You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 16:30

How sick is your heart, says the Lord God, that you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,

Ezekiel 16:35

Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution by forsaking the Lord.”

Hosea 2:2

Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her prostitution from her face and her adultery from between her breasts,

Micah 2:10

Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a violent destruction.

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 5:31

“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall bring the young woman out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a disgraceful act in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Judges 19:2

But his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah and was there some four months.