Jeremiah 3:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘ “Return, you faithless children #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #for I am your master, , and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Return, O faithless children [of the whole twelve tribes], says the Lord, for I am Lord and Master and Husband to you, and I will take you [not as a nation, but individually]–one from a city and two from a tribal family–and I will bring you to Zion. [Luke 15:20-22.] American Standard Version (1901) Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion. Common English Bible Return, rebellious children, declares the LORD, for I’m your husband. I’ll gather you— one from a city and two from a tribe— and bring you back to Zion. Catholic Public Domain Version Convert, O rebellious sons, says the Lord. For I am your leader. And so, I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will lead you into Zion. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Return, O ye revolting children, saith the Lord: for I am your husband: and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and will bring you into Sion. |
So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the hand of the king and his officials, and according to the king’s command, saying, ‘Israelites, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel so that he may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
If the Lord of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.
Israel, even if your people were as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed; justice overflows.
Only gleanings will be left in Israel, as if an olive tree had been beaten – two or three olives at the very top of the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches. This is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Israel.
On that day the Lord will thresh corn from the River Euphrates as far as the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.
I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Indeed, your husband is your Maker – his name is the Lord of Armies – and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of the whole earth.
Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
Because of his sinful greed I was angry, so I struck him; I was angry and hid; but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.
Though a tenth will remain in the land, it will be burned again. Like the terebinth or the oak that leaves a stump when felled, the holy seed is the stump.
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
‘Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride – how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
‘I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have banished them, and I will return them to their grazing land. They will become fruitful and numerous.
I will be found by you’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘and I will restore your fortunes , and gather you from all the nations and places where I banished you’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘I will restore you to the place from which I deported you.’
If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn’t such a land become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners – can you return to me? This is the Lord’s declaration.
Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say, “Return, unfaithful Israel. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will not look on you with anger, for I am unfailing in my love. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will not be angry for ever.
I observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.
They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant with joy because of the Lord’s goodness, because of the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil, and because of the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like an irrigated garden, and they will no longer grow weak from hunger.
This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt #– #my covenant that they broke even though I am their master’ , #– #the Lord’s declaration.
For there will be a day when watchmen will call out in the hill country of Ephraim, ‘Come, let’s go up to Zion, to the Lord our God! ’
I will depart and return to my place until they recognise their guilt and seek my face; they will search for me in their distress.
Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.
But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;