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Jeremiah 3:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

And worst of all, the people of Judah pretended to come back to me.

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Josiah destroyed all the idols in the territories of Israel, and he commanded everyone in Israel to worship only the LORD God. The people did not turn away from the LORD God of their ancestors for the rest of Josiah's rule as king.

They obey and come crawling.

Say to God, “Everything you do is fearsome, and your mighty power makes your enemies come crawling.

to beat down you godless people. I am angry with you, and I will send him to attack you. He will take what he wants and walk on you like mud in the streets.

The Lord has said: “These people praise me with their words, but they never really think about me. They worship me by repeating rules made up by humans.

People of Israel, come back! You have completely turned from the LORD.

They have sinned in the same way their ancestors did, by turning from me and worshipping other gods. The northern kingdom of Israel broke the agreement I made with your ancestors, and now the southern kingdom of Judah has done the same.

You plant them like trees; you let them prosper and produce fruit. Yet even when they praise you, they don't mean it.

I wish that my eyes were fountains of tears, so I could cry day and night for my people who were killed.

They don't really pray to me; they just howl in their beds. They have rejected me for Baal and slashed themselves, in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.

I dried up your grain fields; your gardens and vineyards turned brown. Locusts ate your fig trees and olive orchards, but even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!

You people in Judah and Jerusalem have been unfaithful to the LORD. You have disgraced the temple that he loves, and you have committed the disgusting sin of worshipping other gods.




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