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Jeremiah 3:6

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The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the harlot?

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For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree;

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the harlot in their doings.

But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.

Upon a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and thither you went up to offer sacrifice.

to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree, and on the high hills,

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot.

How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman protects a man.”

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly faithless to me, says the Lord.

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned hire.

“Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord:

For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their soothing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt than she in her doting and in her harlotry, which was worse than that of her sister.

Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it.

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.




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