They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
Jeremiah 3:1 - Y'all Version Bible “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says YHWH. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THAT IS to say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he return to her again? [Of course not!] Would not that land [where such a thing happened] be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot [against Me] with many lovers–yet would you now return to Me? says the Lord [or do you even think to return to Me?] American Standard Version (1901) They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible If a man divorces his wife, and after she leaves him marries another, can he return to her again? Wouldn’t such an act completely corrupt the land? Yet you have prostituted yourself with many lovers. Would you return to me? declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version "It is commonly said: 'If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.' So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? Shall not that woman be polluted and defiled? But thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers. Nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee. |
They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
I brought y’all into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when y’all entered, y’all defiled my land, and y’all made my heritage an abomination.
“You are to go up to Lebanon and cry out. Lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim, for all your lovers have been destroyed.
“Return, y’all backsliding children, and I will heal y’all’s backsliding.” “Look, we have come to you, for you are YHWH our God.
Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.
How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For YHWH has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”
“If you will return, Israel,” says YHWH, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
She weeps-weeps in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.
You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
“‘“How weak is your heart,” says Lord YHWH, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
Tell them, ‘“As surely as I live,” says Lord YHWH, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Y’all must turn, turn from your* evil ways! Why will y’all die, house of Israel?”’
When YHWH began to spoke through Hosea, YHWH said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of promiscuity and children of promiscuity, for the land is promiscuous-promiscuous, forsaking YHWH.”
Y’all must rebuke your* mother, rebuke her! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.
Y’all must get up go! For this is not a resting place, because uncleanness destroys with a grievous destruction.
Therefore you are to tell them, YHWH Almighty says: ‘Y’all must return to me,’ says YHWH Almighty, ‘and I will return to y’all,’ says YHWH Almighty.
“It was also said, ‘Whoever sends away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce,’
then they must bring the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city are to stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel and played the prostitute in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.