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Jeremiah 3:13

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Admit that you’ve done wrong! You have rebelled against the Lord your God. You have given yourself to strangers under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,’ declares the Lord.

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Those who were descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood and confessed their sins as well as the wicked things their ancestors had done.

Whoever covers over his sins does not prosper. Whoever confesses and abandons them receives compassion.

You burn with lust under oak trees and under every large tree. You slaughter children in the valleys and under the cracks in the rocks.

This is what the Lord says about these people: They love to wander. They don’t keep their feet where they belong. So the Lord isn’t happy with them. He will remember their crimes and punish their sins.

O Lord, we realize our wickedness and the wrongs done by our ancestors. We have sinned against you.

“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.

Don’t run until your feet are bare and your throats are dry. But you say that it’s useless. You love foreign gods and follow them.

“Look at the bare hills, and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

We must lie down in our shame and be covered by our disgrace. Ever since we were young, we and our ancestors have sinned against the Lord our God. We haven’t obeyed the Lord our God.

When Josiah was king, the Lord asked me, “Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there.

But they didn’t obey me or pay attention to me. They followed their own plans and their stubborn, evil ways. They went backward and not forward.

But you didn’t obey me or pay attention to me. You became impossible to deal with, and you were worse than your ancestors.

“ ‘But you trusted your beauty, and you used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by.

I will go back to my place until they admit that they are guilty. Then they will search for me. In their distress they will eagerly look for me.”

Completely destroy all the worship sites on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every large tree. The people you’re forcing out worship their gods in these places.




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