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Jeremiah 3:9

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

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But as for you, children of fortune-tellers, the product of adultery and prostitution—come here!

You have chosen to worship the smooth stones from the streams of the valleys—that's the choice you've made! You have poured out drink offerings to these idols—you have presented them with grain offerings. Should that make me happy?

Yet these “wise men” are completely foolish and stupid, because they think they can be taught by useless idols made of wood!

First I'm going to pay them back double for their wickedness and sin, because they have made my land unclean with the lifeless bodies of their disgusting idols, filling my special country with their offensive pagan images.

They say to an idol made of wood, “You are my father,” and one made of stone, “You gave birth to me.” They turn their backs on me, and hide their faces from me. But when they're in trouble they come begging to me, saying, “Please come and save us!”

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.

Look up at the bare hilltops. Is there anywhere that you haven't had sex? You sat at the roadside like someone from the desert waiting for your lovers to pass by. You have made the land unclean with your prostitution and evil.

You also used the beautiful gold and silver jewelry I gave you to make male idols and you prostituted yourself with them.

They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became infamous among women, and they punished her.

You went back to the indecent acts from when you were young, when the Egyptians squeezed your nipples and fondled your young breasts.

They became prostitutes in Egypt. In fact, they were prostitutes from the time they were young. They allowed their virgin breasts to be fondled and their nipples squeezed.

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.

My people consult their wooden idols and their divining rods give them answers, for a spirit of prostitution makes them go astray. Prostituting themselves, they have deserted their God.

To you, Lord, I cry out! For fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness; flames have burned up all the orchards.

What disaster is coming to you who say to something made of wood, “Wake up!” or to lifeless stone, “Get up!” Can it teach you anything? Look at it! It's covered with gold and silver, but there is no life inside it.

But I tell you that any man who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.




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