But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and prostitute.
Jeremiah 3:9 - Tree of Life Version It happened that through her frivolous prostitution, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with wood. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And through the infamy and unseemly frivolity of Israel's whoredom [because her immorality mattered little to her], she polluted and defiled the land, [by her idolatry] committing adultery with [idols of] stones and trees. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks. Common English Bible She didn’t think twice about corrupting the land and committing adultery with stone and tree. Catholic Public Domain Version And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land and played the harlot with stones and with stocks. |
But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and prostitute.
Among the smooth stones of the wadi is your portion—they are your lot. To them you have even poured out a drink offering, made a grain offering. Shall I relent concerning these things?
They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!
First I will repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have profaned My land, and they have filled My possession with the carcasses of their vile things and their abominations.”
They say to wood, ‘You are my father’ and to a stone, ‘You birthed me.’ They have turned their back to Me and not their face. Yet when they are in trouble they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
Yet I brought you into a fertile land, to eat of its fruit and goodness. When you came, you defiled My land. You made My heritage an abomination.
“Lift your eyes to the barren hills and see! Where have you not been violated? By the wayside you sat waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
You also took your jewelry—My gold and My silver, which I gave you—made male images for yourself and committed harlotry with them.
They stripped her naked, they took her sons and her daughters and slaughtered her with the sword. She became notorious among women. Judgments were executed upon her.
So you revisited the promiscuity of your youth, when the Egyptians used to fondle your bosom and youthful breasts.
They were harlots in Egypt; they were harlots in their youth; their bosoms were caressed there and their virgin breasts were fondled.
Then the descendants of Judah and descendants of Israel will be gathered together. They will appoint themselves one head And they will go up from the land. For the day of Jezreel will be great.
My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God.
To You, Adonai, I cry! For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has set ablaze all the trees of the field.
Oy to one who says to wood: “Awake!” To a dumb stone: “Rouse yourself!” Can it teach? Look, it is plated with gold and silver, but it has no spirit within it.
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.