Jeremiah 3:1

The Passion Translation

Here’s what Yahweh says: “If a man divorces his wife and she marries another, would he return to her again? Doing that would thoroughly defile the land. And you, Israel, have prostituted yourself with many lovers, yet now you want to come back to me? I, Yahweh, have spoken.

Cross References

Psalm 106:38

shedding the innocent blood of their sons and daughters. These dark practices greatly defiled the land and their own souls, through the murder and bloodshed of their own babies! Their sins made them spiritual adulterers before you.

Isaiah 24:5

The people have polluted the earth beneath their feet by disobeying laws, violating truth, and breaking the ancient, everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 2:20

“Long ago, you broke your bond with me and severed ties. You boldly said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Yet, on every high hill and under every green tree, you offered yourself to other gods. You were like a prostitute sprawled out awaiting sex.

Jeremiah 2:23

“How dare you say, ‘I have not defiled myself. I’ve not chased after false gods.’ Look how you behaved badly in the valley. Don’t you realize what you’ve done? You’re like a restless wild camel running loose

Jeremiah 2:7

“I brought you to this land of abundance to enjoy its lush fruit and goodness, but you entered the land and defiled my land. You made hideous the very land I call my own.

Jeremiah 22:20

“Go up to the peaks of Lebanon, you people of Jerusalem, and cry out. Raise your voice in the heights of Bashan, cry out from the mountains of Moab, for all your lovers, the nations you trusted in, are crushed.

Jeremiah 3:22

“Come back to me, you unfaithful ones! Let me heal your waywardness and restore your faithfulness.” “We’re here! We’re coming back to you, Yahweh, because you are our God.

Jeremiah 3:9

Her infidelity mattered little to her. She polluted the land and committed adultery by worshiping idolatrous stone and wood pillars.

Jeremiah 31:22

Faithless one, how long will you hesitate? For Yahweh is creating something new on earth. A woman will rescue a warrior!”

Jeremiah 4:1

“I, Yahweh, say to Israel: “Listen, if you turn to come back to me, then return to me with all your heart. If you remove your disgusting idols from before my face, then come home and never stray from my presence again.

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be rescued. How long will evil thoughts and harmful schemes find a resting place in you?

Lamentations 1:2

She is weeping bitterly through the night, with tears streaming down her cheeks. Among all her lovers, not one can be found to comfort her. Her friends have all betrayed her and have now become her enemies.

Ezekiel 16:26

You slept with your well-endowed neighbors, the Egyptians, provoking my anger with your lifestyle of a prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:30

“ ‘I, Lord Yahweh, say: You make me extremely angry because of all these things that you have done. You have acted like a brazen prostitute who has no shame.

Ezekiel 16:35

“ ‘Very well, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear the word of Yahweh!

Ezekiel 33:11

“Say to them, ‘As surely as I, Lord Yahweh, exist—I take no delight in the death of the wicked, but I delight in seeing them turn from their ways so they can live. So, repent and turn from your evil ways. People of Israel, why would you want to die? Turn and come back to me!’

Matthew 5:31

“It has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her legal divorce papers.’

Judges 19:2

but she eventually was unfaithful. She deserted him and returned to her father’s house in Bethlehem where she stayed for four months.