Jeremiah 3:2

Good News Translation

Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.

Cross References

Genesis 38:14

So she changed from the widow's clothes she had been wearing, covered her face with a veil, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, a town on the road to Timnah. As she well knew, Judah's youngest son Shelah was now grown up, and yet she had not been given to him in marriage.

1 Kings 11:3

Solomon married seven hundred princesses and also had three hundred concubines. They made him turn away from God,

2 Kings 23:13

Josiah desecrated the altars that King Solomon had built east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Olives, for the worship of disgusting idols—Astarte the goddess of Sidon, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Molech the god of Ammon.

Psalm 106:38

They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.

Proverbs 23:28

They wait for you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful.

Proverbs 7:11

She was a bold and shameless woman who always walked the streets

Jeremiah 12:12

Across all the desert highlands people have come to plunder. I have sent war to destroy the entire land; no one can live in peace.

Jeremiah 2:20

The Sovereign Lord says, “Israel, long ago you rejected my authority; you refused to obey me and worship me. On every high hill and under every green tree you worshiped fertility gods.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say you have not defiled yourself, that you have never worshiped Baal? Look how you sinned in the valley; see what you have done. You are like a wild camel in heat, running around loose,

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought them into a fertile land, to enjoy its harvests and its other good things. But instead they ruined my land; they defiled the country I had given them.

Jeremiah 3:1

The Lord says, “If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to me!

Jeremiah 3:13

Only admit that you are guilty and that you have rebelled against the Lord, your God. Confess that under every green tree you have given your love to foreign gods and that you have not obeyed my commands. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 3:21

A noise is heard on the hilltops: it is the people of Israel crying and pleading because they have lived sinful lives and have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 3:9

and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees.

Jeremiah 7:29

“Mourn, people of Jerusalem; cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a funeral song on the hilltops, because I, the Lord, am angry and have rejected my people.

Ezekiel 16:16

You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Luke 16:23

and in Hades, where he was in great pain, he looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side.

Deuteronomy 12:2

In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.