Jeremiah 3:1

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If a man divorces his wife and she goes and marries someone else, could he ever go back to her? Wouldn't the country be made totally unclean by this? But you have done worse by prostituting yourselves with many lovers, and now you want to come back to me? declares the Lord.

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

They shed the blood of innocent children, their sons and daughters, sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan. By doing so they defiled the land with blood.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted by its people; they have flouted God's laws, violated his regulations, and broken the eternal agreement with him.

Jeremiah 2:20

You broke off your yoke and ripped off your chains long ago. “I won't worship you!” you declared. On the contrary, you lay down like a prostitute on every high hill and under every green tree.

Jeremiah 2:23

How dare you say, “I'm not unclean! I haven't gone to worship the Baals!” Look at what you've been doing down in the valley. Admit what you've done! You're a young female camel, racing around everywhere.

Jeremiah 2:7

I led you into a productive land to eat all the good things that grow there. But you came and made my land unclean, making it offensive to me.

Jeremiah 22:20

Go to Lebanon and cry for help! Shout in Bashan! Scream from Abarim! For all your lovers have been destroyed.

Jeremiah 3:22

Come back, unfaithful children, and I will heal your unfaithfulness. “We're here! Yes, we're coming back to you, because you are the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 3:9

Israel didn't care about the immorality, as she made herself and the land unclean, committing adultery by worshiping stones and trees.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long are you going to waver in your decision, you unfaithful daughter? For the Lord has made something new happen here: a woman is going to protect a man.

Jeremiah 4:1

Israel, if you want to come back, then come back to me, declares the Lord. If you get rid of these disgusting idols I see, and don't wander away,

Jeremiah 4:14

Clean the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you can be saved. How long will you hold onto your evil thoughts?

Lamentations 1:2

She cries bitterly through the night, tears rolling down her cheeks. Despite all her many lovers, no one comes to comfort her. Betrayed by all her friends, they are now her enemies.

Ezekiel 16:26

You gave yourself as a prostitute to your Egyptian neighbors with their large sexual organs, making me angry as you became even more promiscuous.

Ezekiel 16:30

You're really sick-minded to do all this, acting like a prostitute with no shame, declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 16:35

So, you prostitute, listen to the message from the Lord!

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them: As I live, declares the Lord God, it brings me no pleasure when wicked people die. I wish they would stop sinning and live! Stop! Stop sinning! Why should you die, people of Israel?

Hosea 1:2

The Lord began speaking through Hosea by telling him, “Go and take a wife who is a prostitute and have children born to a prostitute, because those living in this land have committed terrible prostitution by turning away from the Lord.”

Hosea 2:2

Condemn your mother, condemn her because she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Tell her to stop looking like a prostitute—get rid of the makeup and the provocative clothing.

Micah 2:10

Get up! Leave! For this is not a place for you to stay. It is defiled and totally ruined.

Zechariah 1:3

So tell the people this: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 5:31

The law also said, ‘If a man divorces his wife, he should give her a certificate of divorce.’

Deuteronomy 22:21

she is to be taken to the door of her father's house, and there the men of her town are to stone her to death. She has done something disgraceful in Israel by acting immorally in her father's house. You must eliminate the evil from among you.

Judges 19:2

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