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Jeremiah 3:9

The Passion Translation

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

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“But you—come here, you son of a sorceress! You’re nothing but an offspring of an adulteress and a prostitute.

From there you take smooth stones and worship them as idols. Yes, they become your idols! You bring them grain offerings and pour out wine as drink offerings. Do you think I will not seek vengeance for this?

What wisdom could they glean from a block of wood? They are foolish blockheads, one and all.

First, I will pay them back in full— even double for their evil and their sins. They have defiled my land and made it unfit for me because of their dead, detestable idols and have filled the land I have chosen for my own with their abominations.”

You have called an idol of wood your ‘father’ and an idol of stone your ‘mother.’ You have turned your back toward me instead of your face. But how different it is when you get into trouble! You cry out to me and ask me to come and save you.

“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.

“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.

You also took your gold and silver jewelry, which I had given you, and made yourself male images and acted like a prostitute with them.

They stripped her naked, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious among women because of her punishment for her sins.

In that way, you were longing to repeat the debauchery of your youth, when men used to fondle your nipples in Egypt and played with your young breasts.”

While they were still girls, they became prostitutes in Egypt. Men caressed their breasts; their virgin breasts were first fondled there.

However, I say to you, if anyone divorces his wife for any reason, except for infidelity, he causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”




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