Jeremiah 3:2

The Passion Translation

“Look up to the barren heights and carefully consider: Is there any place where you have not offered yourself as a prostitute? You have sat by the roadside waiting for lovers, sitting like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

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.

Proverbs 23:28

Like a robber hiding in the shadows she’s waiting to claim another victim— another husband unfaithful to his wife.

Proverbs 7:11

Her voice was seductive, rebellious, and boisterous as she wandered far from what’s right.

Jeremiah 12:12

Many destroyers have marched over those barren hills. Yahweh’s sword has devoured the people throughout the land; no one is safe.

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 3:1

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.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only admit your guilt! You have rebelled against Yahweh your God. You have lavished your love on foreign gods under every green tree. You have not listened to my voice. I, Yahweh, have spoken.’ ”

Jeremiah 3:21

I hear the sound of voices echoing from the barren hills, the bitter weeping of the sons of Israel pleading for mercy because they lost their moral way and have forgotten Yahweh their 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 7:29

“People of Jerusalem, cut off your long hair and throw it away, and raise your song of mourning on the hilltops, for Yahweh has rejected and abandoned the generation of his fury.

Ezekiel 16:16

You took some of your fine clothes to decorate the tents on the high places where you worked as a prostitute.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I had brought them into the promised land, they discovered all sorts of high hills and all kinds of spreading trees. That is where they offered sacrifices and made offerings to false gods that provoked my anger. That is where they burned incense and poured out drink offerings to false gods.

Luke 16:23

“The day came that the rich man also died. In hell he looked up from his torment and saw Abraham in the distance, and Lazarus was standing beside him in the glory.