Jeremiah 3:1

God's Word

A saying: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband shouldn’t go back to her again. The land would become thoroughly polluted. “You have acted like a prostitute who has many lovers. And now you want to come back to me!” declares the Lord.

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

They shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land became polluted with blood.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted by those who live on it because they’ve disobeyed the Lord’s teachings, violated his laws, and rejected the everlasting promise.

Jeremiah 2:20

“Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your chains, and said that you wouldn’t be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.

Jeremiah 2:23

“How can you say that you haven’t dishonored yourselves and haven’t followed other gods—the Baals? Look how you’ve behaved in the valley. Acknowledge what you’ve done. You are like a young camel that swiftly runs here and there.

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought them into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its produce. They came and made my land unclean. They made my property disgusting.

Jeremiah 22:20

“Go to Lebanon and cry! Raise your voice in Bashan! Cry out from Abarim, because all your lovers are defeated.”

Jeremiah 3:22

“Come back, you rebellious people, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful.” Here we are! We have come to you because you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 3:9

Because she wasn’t concerned about acting like a prostitute, she polluted the land and committed adultery with standing stones and wood pillars.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you wander around, you unfaithful people? The Lord will create something new on earth: A woman will protect a man.

Jeremiah 4:1

The Lord declares, “If you come back, Israel, if you come back to me, if you take your disgusting idols out of my sight and you don’t wander away from me,

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be rescued. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Lamentations 1:2

Jerusalem cries bitterly at night with tears running down its cheeks. Out of all those who love the city, no one offers it comfort. All of Jerusalem’s friends have betrayed it and become its enemies.

Ezekiel 16:26

You had sex with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians. You used your prostitution to make me angry.

Ezekiel 16:30

“ ‘You have no will power! declares the Almighty Lord. You do everything a shameless prostitute does.

Ezekiel 16:35

“ ‘Listen to the Lord’s word, you prostitute.

Ezekiel 33:11

“Tell them, ‘As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, I don’t want wicked people to die. Rather, I want them to turn from their ways and live. Change the way you think and act! Turn from your wicked ways! Do you want to die, people of Israel?’

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, the Lord told him, “Marry a prostitute and have children with that prostitute. The people in this land have acted like prostitutes and abandoned the Lord.”

Hosea 2:2

“Plead with your mother; plead with her. She no longer acts like my wife. She no longer treats me like her husband. Tell her to stop acting like a prostitute. Tell her to remove the lovers from between her breasts.

Micah 2:10

Get up, and go away! This is not a place to rest! It will be destroyed, completely destroyed, because it offends me.

Zechariah 1:3

Tell the people, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies says: Return to me, declares the Lord of Armies, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Armies.’

Matthew 5:31

“It has also been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a written notice.’

Deuteronomy 22:21

they must take the girl to the entrance of her father’s house. The men of her city must stone her to death because she has committed such a godless act in Israel: She had sex before marriage, while she was still living in her father’s house. You must get rid of this evil.

Judges 19:2

But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went to her father’s home, to Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,