Jeremiah 3:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD said to the people of Israel: If a divorced woman marries, can her first husband ever marry her again? No, because this would pollute the land. But you have more gods than a prostitute has lovers. Why should I take you back?

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

and to the gods of Canaan. Then they poured out the blood of these innocent children and made the land filthy.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted because its people disobeyed the laws of God, breaking their agreement that was to last for ever.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you left me and broke all ties between us, refusing to be my servant. Now you worship other gods by having sex on hilltops or in the shade of large trees.

Jeremiah 2:23

You deny your sins and say, “We aren't unclean. We haven't worshipped Baal.” But think about what you do in Hinnom Valley. And you run back and forth like young camels, as you rush to worship one idol after another.

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you here to my land, where food is abundant, but you made my land filthy with your sins.

Jeremiah 22:20

People of Jerusalem, the nations you trusted have been crushed. Go to Lebanon and weep; cry in the land of Bashan and in Moab.

Jeremiah 3:22

I will tell them, “Come back, and I will cure you of your unfaithfulness.” They will answer, “We will come back, because you are the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 3:9

The kingdom of Judah wasn't sorry for being a prostitute, and she didn't care that she had made both herself and the land unclean by worshipping idols of stone and wood.

Jeremiah 31:22

Will you ever decide to be faithful? I will make sure that some day things will be different, as different as a woman protecting a man.

Jeremiah 4:1

The LORD said: Israel, if you really want to come back to me, get rid of those disgusting idols.

Jeremiah 4:14

But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans,

Lamentations 1:2

Each night, bitter tears flood her cheeks. None of her former lovers are there to offer comfort; her friends have betrayed her and are now her enemies.

Ezekiel 16:26

To make me angry, you even offered yourself to Egyptians, who were always ready to sleep with you.

Ezekiel 16:30

I, the LORD God, say that you were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted.

Ezekiel 16:35

Jerusalem, you prostitute, listen to me.

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them that as surely as I am the living LORD God, I don't like to see wicked people die. I enjoy seeing them turn from their sins and live. So if the Israelites want to live, they must stop sinning and turn back to me.

Hosea 1:2

The LORD said, “Hosea, Israel has betrayed me like an unfaithful wife. Marry such a woman and have children by her.”

Hosea 2:2

Accuse! Accuse your mother! She is no longer my wife, and now I, the LORD, am not her husband. Beg her to give up prostitution and stop being unfaithful,

Micah 2:10

Get out of here, you crooks! You'll find no rest here. You're not fit to belong to the LORD's people, and you will be destroyed.

Matthew 5:31

You have been taught that a man who divorces his wife must write out divorce papers for her.

Deuteronomy 22:21

the men of the town will take the woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death. This woman brought evil into your community by sleeping with someone before she got married, and you must get rid of that evil by killing her.

Judges 19:2

but she was unfaithful and went back to live with her family in Bethlehem. Four months later