Jeremiah 3:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ “Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a whore’s forehead, you refuse to be ashamed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no spring rain. Yet you have the brow of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Common English Bible

³ That’s why the showers have failed and the spring rains have ceased. Still you act like a brazen prostitute who refuses to blush.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For this reason, the rain showers were withheld, and there were no late season rains. You made your face like that of a promiscuous woman; you were not willing to blush.

Jeremiah 3:3 Cross References

Genesis 19:34

And it came to be on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, “See, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight as well, and you go in and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of our father.”

Nehemiah 9:17

“And they refused to obey, and they remembered not Your wonders that You did among them, and hardened their necks, and in their rebellion they appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a forgiving Eloah, showing favour, and compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.

Proverbs 21:29

A wrong man hardens his face, But as for the straight, he establishes his way.

Isaiah 5:6

and I lay it waste; it is not pruned or dug and thornbushes and weeds shall come up; and I command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of יהוה  that came to Yirmeyahu concerning the matter of droughts.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there among the worthless idols of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O יהוה  our Elohim? And we wait for You, for You are the One who does all this.

Jeremiah 14:3

“And their nobles have sent their little ones for water, they went to the cisterns and found no water, they returned with their vessels empty. They were put to shame, and blushed and covered their heads.

Jeremiah 14:4

“Because the ground became cracked, for there has been no rain in the land. The ploughmen were put to shame, they covered their heads.

Jeremiah 36:2

“Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 5:24

‘And they do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear יהוה  our Elohim, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He guards for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”

Jeremiah 5:25

‘Your crookednesses have turned these away, and your sins have kept the good from you.

Jeremiah 5:3

O יהוה, are Your eyes not on truth? You have smitten them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces harder than rock, they refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble at the time I visit them,” said יהוה.

Jeremiah 8:12

“Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble in the time of their visitation,” said יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man, that he understands this? And to whom has the mouth of יהוה  spoken, that he declares it? Why has the land perished, has it been burned up like a wilderness, with none passing through?

Ezekiel 3:7

“But the house of Yisra’ĕ

Leviticus 26:19

‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

Amos 4:7

“And I also withheld rain from you, three months before the harvest. Then I would send rain on one city, and on another city I would not send rain. One part was rained upon, and where it did not rain the part would dry up.

Amos 4:8

“Then two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה.

Zephaniah 2:1

Gather together, gather together, O nation without shame,

Zephaniah 3:5

יהוה  is righteous in her midst, He does no unrighteousness. Morning by morning He brings His right-ruling to light, it has not been lacking, yet the unrighteous one knows no shame.

Haggai 1:11

“And I called for a drought on the land, and on the mountains, and on the grain, and on the new wine, and on the oil, and on whatever the ground brings forth, and on man, and on livestock, and on all the labour of the hands.”

Deuteronomy 28:23

“And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you iron.

Hebrews 12:25

Take heed not to refuse the One speaking. For if those did not escape who refused the warning on earth, much less we who turn away from Him from heaven,