Jeremiah 3:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

Isaiah 57:3

You people are unfaithful! You go to fortune-tellers, and you worship idols. Now pay close attention!

Isaiah 57:6

You have chosen to worship idols made of stone; you have given them offerings of wine and grain. Should I be pleased?

Jeremiah 10:8

Idols are worthless, and anyone who worships them is a fool!

Jeremiah 16:18

I will punish you double for your sins, because you have made my own land disgusting. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.

Jeremiah 2:27

worship stone idols and sacred poles as if they had created you and had given you life. You have rejected me, but when you're in trouble, you cry to me for help.

Jeremiah 2:7

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

Jeremiah 3:2

Just try to find one hilltop where you haven't gone to worship other gods by having sex. You sat beside the road like a robber in ambush, except you offered yourself to every passer-by. Your sins of unfaithfulness have polluted the land.

Ezekiel 16:17

You made idols out of the gold and silver jewellery I gave you, then you sinned by worshipping those idols.

Ezekiel 23:10

They ripped off her clothes, then captured her children and killed her. Women everywhere talked about what had happened to Oholah.

Ezekiel 23:21

And she longed for the days when she was a young prostitute, when men enjoyed having sex with her.

Ezekiel 23:3

While they were young and living in Egypt, they became prostitutes.

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,

Hosea 4:12

You expect wooden idols and other objects of wood to give you advice. Lusting for sex at pagan shrines has made you unfaithful to me, your God.

Joel 1:19

I cry out to you, LORD. Grasslands and forests are eaten by the scorching heat.

Habakkuk 2:19

What can you learn from idols covered with silver or gold? They can't even breathe. Pity anyone who says to an idol of wood or stone, “Get up and do something!”

Matthew 5:32

But I tell you not to divorce your wife unless she has committed some terrible sexual sin. If you divorce her, you will cause her to be unfaithful, just as any man who marries her is guilty of taking another man's wife.