Jeremiah 3:9

God's Word

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

Cross References

Isaiah 57:3

But you—come here, you children of witches, you descendants of adulterers and prostitutes!

Isaiah 57:6

Your idols are among the smooth stones in the ravine. They are your destiny. You have given them wine offerings and sacrificed grain offerings to them. Do you think I am pleased with all this?

Jeremiah 10:8

They are complete idiots. They learn nonsense from wooden idols.

Jeremiah 16:18

First, I will have them pay twice as much for their wickedness and their sin, because they have polluted my land. They have filled my property with the lifeless statues of their detestable and disgusting idols.”

Jeremiah 2:27

You call wood your father. You call stone your mother. You’ve turned your backs, not your faces, to me. But when you’re in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.

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 3:2

“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.

Ezekiel 16:17

You took your beautiful gold and silver jewelry that I had given you and made male idols for yourself. Then you committed adultery with them.

Ezekiel 23:10

They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters, and killed her with a sword. Women gossiped about how she was punished.

Ezekiel 23:21

So she longed to do the sinful things she did when she was young in Egypt, when young men caressed and fondled her breasts.

Ezekiel 23:3

They became prostitutes in Egypt when they were young. There men fondled and caressed their breasts.

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.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask their wooden idols for help. A piece of wood tells them what to do. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray. They commit adultery by giving themselves to other gods.

Joel 1:19

O Lord, I cry to you for help! Fire has burned up the open pastures. Flames have burned up all the trees in the orchards.

Habakkuk 2:19

‘How horrible it will be for the one who says to a piece of wood, “Wake up!” and to a stone that cannot talk, “Get up!” ’ Can that thing teach ⌞anyone⌟? Just look at it! It’s covered with gold and silver, but there’s absolutely no life in it.”

Matthew 5:32

But I can guarantee that any man who divorces his wife for any reason other than unfaithfulness makes her look as though she has committed adultery. Whoever marries a woman divorced in this way makes himself look as though he has committed adultery.