Jeremiah 3:1

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"It is commonly said: 'If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.' So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you.

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly. And he did not diminish their beasts of burden.

Isaiah 24:5

And the earth was corrupted by its inhabitants. For they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have dissipated the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 2:20

From ancient times, you have broken my yoke; you have torn apart my bonds, and you have said, 'I will not serve.' For on every high hill, and under every leafy tree, you have been debased, O harlot.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say: 'I have not been polluted. I have not walked after Baal?' Consider your ways in the steep valley. Acknowledge what you have done, so that you may be like a swift runner, following his course.

Jeremiah 2:7

And I led you into the land of Carmel, so that you would eat from its fruit and from its excellence. And having entered it, you defiled my land, and you turned my inheritance into an abomination.

Jeremiah 22:20

Ascend to Lebanon and cry out! And utter your voice in Bashan, and cry out to those passing by. For all your lovers have been crushed.

Jeremiah 3:22

"Convert, O rebellious sons! And I will heal your rebelliousness." "Behold, we are returning to you. For you are the Lord our God!

Jeremiah 3:9

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

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you be absorbed in delights, O wandering daughter? For the Lord has created something new upon the earth: a woman will encompass a man."

Jeremiah 4:1

"O Israel, if you would return, says the Lord, then be converted to me. If you remove your offense from before my face, then you will not be shaken.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?

Lamentations 1:2

BETH. Weeping, she has wept through the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. There is no one to be a comfort to her and to all her beloved. All her friends have spurned her, and they have become her enemies.

Ezekiel 16:26

And you fornicated with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, who have large bodies. And you multiplied your fornications, so as to provoke me.

Ezekiel 16:30

With what can I cleanse your heart, says the Lord God, since you do all these things, the works of a woman who is a shameless prostitute?

Ezekiel 16:35

Because of this, O harlot, listen to the word of the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I do not desire the death of the impious, but that the impious should convert from his way and live. Be converted, be converted from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?

Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the Lord's conversation with Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea: "Go, take to yourself a wife of fornications, and make for yourself sons of fornications, because, by fornicating, the land will fornicate away from the Lord."

Hosea 2:2

Judge your mother, judge: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her fornications from before her face and her adulteries from between her breasts.

Micah 2:10

Rise and depart, for there is no relief for you here. Because of its uncleanness, it will be corrupted with a most wicked decay.

Zechariah 1:3

And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 5:31

And it has been said: 'Whoever would dismiss his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.'

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall throw her down, outside the doors of her father's house, and the men of that city shall stone her to death, and she shall die. For she has acted wickedly in Israel, in that she fornicated in her father's house. And so shall you take away the evil from your midst.

Judges 19:2

She left him, and she returned to the house of her father in Bethlehem. And she stayed with him for four months.