Jeremiah 3:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ “And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And I saw, even though [Judah knew] that for this very cause of committing adultery (idolatry) I [the Lord] had put faithless Israel away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her faithless and treacherous sister Judah was not afraid, but she also went and played the harlot [following after idols].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.

Common English Bible

⁸ She also saw that I sent unfaithful Israel away with divorce papers because of all her acts of unfaithfulness; yet disloyal sister Judah was not afraid but kept on playing the prostitute.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ that because the apostate Israel had committed adultery, I had dismissed her and had given her a bill of divorce. Yet her deceitful sister Judah was not afraid. But she, too, went and committed fornication herself.

Jeremiah 3:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:11

He had also made high places in the mountains of Yehuḏ

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says יהוה, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

Jeremiah 2:19

“Your own evil instructs you, and your backslidings reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter that you have forsaken יהוה  your Elohim, and that My fear is not in you,” declares the Master יהוה  of hosts.

Jeremiah 3:1

Elohim said, “If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, does he return to her again? Would not that land be made greatly unclean? But you have committed whoring with many lovers. And would you return to Me?” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not observed what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two clans which יהוה  has chosen have been rejected by Him’? So they have despised My people, no more to be a nation before them.

Jeremiah 5:7

“Why should I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those that are not mighty ones. When I had filled them up, they then committed adultery and they thronged to the house of a whore.

Ezekiel 16:46

“And your elder sister is Shomeron, she and her daughters, who is dwelling to the north of you. And your younger sister, who is dwelling to the south of you, is Seḏ

Ezekiel 16:47

“And have you not walked in their ways and did according to their abominations? But in all your ways you soon became more corrupt than they.

Ezekiel 16:51

“And Shomeron did not commit half of your sins, but you have increased your abominations more than they, and by all the abominations which you have done you made your sisters seem righteous!

Ezekiel 23:44

“And they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who is a whore. Thus they went in to Oholah and Oholiḇ

Ezekiel 23:9

“Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Ashshurians, for whom she lusted.

Hosea 3:4

For many days the children of Yisra’ĕ

Deuteronomy 24:1

“When a man takes a wife and shall marry her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness in her, and he shall write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house,

Deuteronomy 24:3

and the latter husband shall hate her and write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,