Jeremiah 3:1

Modern English Version

If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, says the Lord.

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

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

Isaiah 24:5

The earth also is defiled by its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, violated the ordinances, broken the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, “I will not serve.” For upon every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, “I am not polluted, I have not gone after the Baals”? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift young camel entangling her ways,

Jeremiah 2:7

And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.

Jeremiah 22:20

Go up to Lebanon and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, O backsliding sons, and I will heal your backslidings. “Behold, we come to You, for You are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 3:9

Through the lightness of her harlotry she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and with trees.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you go about, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall obtain a man.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you will return, O Israel, says the Lord, return to Me. And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, then you shall not be moved.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps sorely in the night, her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Ezekiel 16:26

You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and increased your harlotries to provoke Me to anger.

Ezekiel 16:30

How weak is your heart, says the Lord God, seeing you do all these things, the works of an imperious harlot.

Ezekiel 16:35

Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry, departing from the Lord.”

Hosea 2:2

Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not My wife, and am I not her husband — that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts,

Micah 2:10

Get up and go, for this is not the resting place, because uncleanness ruins, and ruin sickens.

Zechariah 1:3

so you will say to them, Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 5:31

“It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall bring the girl out to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones until she dies, because she has brought disgrace into Israel, to act like a whore in her father’s house. In this way you may purge the evil from among you.

Judges 19:2

Yet his concubine became angry with him and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah. She was there for four months.