Jeremiah 3:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ “And it came to be, through her frivolous whoring, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and wood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And through the infamy and unseemly frivolity of Israel's whoredom [because her immorality mattered little to her], she polluted and defiled the land, [by her idolatry] committing adultery with [idols of] stones and trees.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Common English Bible

⁹ She didn’t think twice about corrupting the land and committing adultery with stone and tree.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.

Jeremiah 3:9 Cross References

Isaiah 57:3

“But come here, you sons of the sorceress, you offspring of the adulterer and the whore!

Isaiah 57:6

“Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they, are your lot! Also to them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a grain offering. Am I comforted in these?

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree.

Jeremiah 16:18

“And first I shall repay double for their crookedness and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the dead bodies of their disgusting matters, and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Jeremiah 2:27

saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their calamity they say, ‘Arise and save us.’

Jeremiah 2:7

“Then I brought you into a garden land, to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.

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

Ezekiel 16:17

“And you took your splendid adornments, of My gold and My silver that I gave you, and made for yourself images of a male and whored with them.

Ezekiel 23:10

“They uncovered her nakedness, they took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.

Ezekiel 23:21

“Thus you longed for the wickedness of your youth, when the Mitsrites squeezed your nipples because of the breasts of your youth.

Ezekiel 23:3

“And they whored in Mitsrayim, they whored in their youth. There their breasts were handled, and there their maiden nipples were squeezed.

Hosea 2:2

“Strive with your mother, strive, for she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her whorings from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

Hosea 4:12

“My people ask from their Wood, and their Staff declares to them. For a spirit of whorings has led them astray, and they went whoring from under their Elohim.

Joel 1:19

I cry to You יהוה, for fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and a flame has set on fire all the trees of the field.

Habakkuk 2:19

“Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Is it a teacher? See, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no spirit at all inside it.

Matthew 5:32

“But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery.