Jeremiah 3:13 - The Scriptures 1998

¹³ ‘Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against יהוה  your Elohim, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares יהוה.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Only know, understand, and acknowledge your iniquity and guilt–that you have rebelled and transgressed against the Lord your God and have scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹³ Only acknowledge your wrongdoing: how you have rebelled against the LORD your God, and given yourself to strangers under every lush tree and haven’t obeyed me, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ So then, truly acknowledge your iniquity, that you have betrayed the Lord your God, and that you have spread your ways to strangers, under every leafy tree, and that you have not listened to my voice, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:13 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:2

And the descendants of Yisra’ĕ

Proverbs 28:13

He who hides his transgressions does not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them finds compassion.

Isaiah 57:5

being inflamed with mighty ones under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus said יהוה  to this people, “So they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet. Therefore יהוה  has not accepted them. Now He does remember their crookedness and punish their sins.”

Jeremiah 14:20

O יהוה, we know our wrong and the crookedness of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 2:20

“For of old you have broken your yoke and tore of your bonds. And you said, ‘I am not serving You,’ when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down, a whore.

Jeremiah 2:25

“Keep your foot from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is useless, because I love strangers, and after them I go.’

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not lain with men? Besides the ways you have sat for them like an Araḇ

Jeremiah 3:25

“We shall lie down in our shame, while our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against יהוה  our Elohim, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of יהוה  our Elohim.”

Jeremiah 3:6

And יהוה  said to me in the days of Yoshiyahu the sovereign, “Have you seen what backsliding Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 7:24

“But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 7:26

“But they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did evil, more than their fathers.

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you trusted in your own loveliness, and whored because of your name, and poured out your whorings on everyone passing by who would have it.

Hosea 5:15

“I shall go, I shall return to My place, until they confess their guilt and seek My face, in their distress diligently search for Me, and say,

Deuteronomy 12:2

“Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.