Jeremiah 3:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

If  a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn’t such a land  become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners   – can you return to me? This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Cross References

Ezekiel 16:26

You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbours, and increased your prostitution  to anger me.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return,  Israel – this is the  Lord’s declaration – you will return to me, if you remove your abhorrent idols from my presence and do not waver,

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago I   broke your yoke; I  tore off your chains. You insisted, ‘I will not serve! ’ On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.

Zechariah 1:3

So tell the people, “This is what the Lord of Armies says: Return to me #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #and I will return to you, says the Lord of Armies.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the  Lord.

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them, “As I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God  #– #I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live.  Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel? ”

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart,   Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?

Jeremiah 3:9

Indifferent to  her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones  and trees.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you protest, ‘I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals’? Look at your behaviour in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young camel twisting and turning on her way,

Judges 19:2

But she was unfaithful to  him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. She was there for four months.

Micah 2:10

Get up and leave, for this is not your place of rest because defilement  brings destruction – a grievous destruction!

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, you faithless children. I will heal your unfaithfulness. ‘Here we are, coming to you, for you are the  Lord our God.

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you to a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but after you entered, you defiled my land; you made my inheritance   detestable.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant.

Deuteronomy 22:21

they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

Matthew 5:31

‘It was also said, Whoever divorces   his wife must give her a written notice of divorce.   ,

Jeremiah 22:20

Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers  have been crushed.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly during the night, with tears on her cheeks. There is no one to offer her comfort, not one from all her lovers.  , All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Hosea 2:2

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you turn here and there, faithless daughter? For the Lord creates something new in the land   – a female  will shelter  a man.

Ezekiel 16:30

‘ “How your heart was inflamed with lust   #– #the declaration of the Lord God  #– #when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,

Ezekiel 16:35

‘ “Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!