Jeremiah 3:20 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁰ “But indeed as a wife betrays her husband, so have you betrayed Me, O house of Yisra’ĕ

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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."

Jeremiah 3:20 Cross References

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we shall hear songs, “Splendour to the Righteous One!” But I say, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray, with treachery the treacherous betray.”

Isaiah 48:8

“No, you have not heard; no, you have not known; no, from of old your ear has not been open. Because I knew that you are indeed treacherous, and are called ‘a transgressor from the womb.’

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O יהוה, when I plead with You. Indeed, let me speak with You about right-rulings. Why has the way of the wrong prospered? All the workers of treachery are at ease?

Jeremiah 5:11

“For the house of Yisra’ĕ

Hosea 3:1

Then יהוה  said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of יהוה  for the children of Yisra’ĕ

Hosea 5:7

“They have acted treacherously against יהוה, for they have brought forth strange children. Now a new moon shall devour them with their portions.

Hosea 6:7

“But like Aḏ

Malachi 2:11

Yehuḏ