Jeremiah 3:1

New American Bible - revised edition

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted because of its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, broken the ancient covenant.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, “I am not defiled, I have not pursued the Baals”? Consider your conduct in the Valley, recall what you have done: A skittish young camel, running back and forth,

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into the garden land to eat its fine fruits, But you entered and defiled my land, you turned my heritage into an abomination.

Jeremiah 22:20

Climb Lebanon and cry out, in Bashan lift up your voice; Cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are crushed.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, rebellious children! I will heal your rebellions. “Here we are! We belong to you, for you are the Lord, our God.

Jeremiah 3:9

With her casual prostitution, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and wood.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you continue to hesitate, rebellious daughter? The Lord has created a new thing upon the earth: woman encompasses man.

Jeremiah 4:1

If you return, Israel—oracle of the Lord— return to me. If you put your detestable things out of my sight, and do not stray,

Jeremiah 4:14

Cleanse your heart of evil, Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long will you entertain wicked schemes?

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps incessantly in the night, her cheeks damp with tears. She has no one to comfort her from all her lovers; Her friends have all betrayed her, and become her enemies.

Ezekiel 16:26

You served as a prostitute with the Egyptians, your big-membered neighbors, and multiplied your prostitutions to provoke me.

Ezekiel 16:30

How wild your lust!—oracle of the Lord God—that you did all these works of a shameless prostitute,

Ezekiel 16:35

Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

Ezekiel 33:11

Answer them: As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord began to speak with Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: Go, get for yourself a woman of prostitution and children of prostitution, for the land prostitutes itself, turning away from the Lord.

Hosea 2:2

Then the people of Judah and of Israel will gather together; They will appoint for themselves one head and rise up from the land; great indeed shall be the day of Jezreel!

Micah 2:10

“Get up! Leave, this is no place to rest”; Because of uncleanness that destroys with terrible destruction.

Zechariah 1:3

Say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return to me—oracle of the Lord of hosts—and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 5:31

“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a bill of divorce.’

Deuteronomy 22:21

they shall bring the young woman to the entrance of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a shameful crime in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

Judges 19:2

But his concubine spurned him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem of Judah, where she stayed for some four months.