Jeremiah 第3章
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
3:1 ver. 9; Ps. 106:38Would not that land be greatly polluted?
3:1 ch. 2:20You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
Where have you not been ravished?
3:2 Ezek. 16:25By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
3:2 [See ver. 1above]You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
33:3 ch. 9:12; 14:22; Deut. 28:24Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have 3:3 [ch. 6:15]; See Ezek. 3:7, 8the forehead of a whore;
you refuse to be ashamed.
4Have you not just now 3:4 [Luke 15:18]called to me,
‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
will he be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.”
Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
6The Lord said to me in the days of 3:6 ch. 1:2King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, 3:6 See ch. 2:20how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there 3:6 [See ver. 1above]played the whore?
7And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous 3:7 [Ezek. 16:46; 23:4]sister Judah saw it.
8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, 3:8 2 Kgs. 17:18; [Hos. 1:6, 9] I had sent her away with 3:8 [Matt. 19:7; Mark 10:4]; See Deut. 24:1-4a decree of divorce. 3:8 Ezek. 23:11Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went 3:8 [See ver. 1above]and played the whore.
11And the Lord said to me, 3:11 Ezek. 16:51, 52“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
3:12 Prov. 28:13; See Deut. 30:1-10“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
declares the Lord;
3:12 Ps. 103:9I will not be angry forever.
133:13 Lev. 26:40Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under 3:13 ver. 6every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
declares the Lord;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.
15“‘And 3:15 ch. 23:4; Ezek. 34:23; [John 10:11] I will give you shepherds after my own heart, 3:15 Acts 20:28who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16And when you have multiplied and been fruitful in the land, in those days, declares the Lord, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again.
19“‘I said,
How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would 3:19 [Isa. 63:16]call me, My Father,
and would not turn from following me.
so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.’”
3:21 ch. 31:9the weeping and pleading of Israel’s sons
because they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.
3:22 ch. 30:17; Isa. 57:18; Hos. 6:1I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
the orgies3:23 Hebrew commotion on the mountains.
3:23 Ps. 3:8Truly in the Lord our God
is the salvation of Israel.
24“But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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