Parallel Verses
- New American Standard Bible - God says, “If a husband divorces his wife And she leaves him And becomes another man’s wife, Will he return to her again? Would that land not be completely defiled? But you are a prostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me,” declares the Lord.
- 新标点和合本 - “有话说：人若休妻， 妻离他而去，作了别人的妻， 前夫岂能再收回她来？ 若收回她来，那地岂不是大大玷污了吗？ 但你和许多亲爱的行邪淫， 还可以归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 耶和华说 ：“人若休妻， 妻离他而去，做了别人的妻子， 前夫岂能再回到她那里呢？ 那地岂不是大大污秽了吗？ 但你和许多情郎行淫， 还是可以回到我这里。 这是耶和华说的。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 耶和华说 ：“人若休妻， 妻离他而去，做了别人的妻子， 前夫岂能再回到她那里呢？ 那地岂不是大大污秽了吗？ 但你和许多情郎行淫， 还是可以回到我这里。 这是耶和华说的。
- 当代译本 - 耶和华说：“如果丈夫休掉妻子， 妻子离去另嫁别人， 前夫怎会再娶她呢？ 那样做岂不完全玷污了土地吗？ 你曾与许多情人苟合， 现在要归向我吗？
- 圣经新译本 - 耶和华说：“人若是休妻， 妻子离开了他， 又嫁了别人， 前夫怎能与她复合呢？ 如果复合，那地不是大大玷污了吗？ 你曾与许多情人行淫， 还想归向我。” 这是耶和华的宣告。
- 现代标点和合本 - “有话说，人若休妻， 妻离他而去，做了别人的妻， 前夫岂能再收回她来？ 若收回她来，那地岂不是大大玷污了吗？ 但你和许多亲爱的行邪淫， 还可以归向我。” 这是耶和华说的。
- 和合本（拼音版） - “有话说，人若休妻， 妻离他而去，作了别人的妻， 前夫岂能再收回她来？ 若收回她来，那地岂不是大大玷污了吗？ 但你和许多亲爱的行邪淫， 还可以归向我。 这是耶和华说的。
- New International Version - “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?” declares the Lord.
- New International Reader's Version - “Suppose a man divorces his wife. What if she then marries another man? Should her first husband return to her again? If he does, won’t the land become completely ‘unclean’? People of Israel, you have lived like a prostitute. You have loved many other gods. So do you think you can return to me now?” announces the Lord.
- English Standard Version - “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
- New Living Translation - “If a man divorces a woman and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, so why are you trying to come back to me?” says the Lord.
- The Message - God’s Message came to me as follows: “If a man’s wife walks out on him And marries another man, can he take her back as if nothing had happened? Wouldn’t that raise a huge stink in the land? And isn’t that what you’ve done— ‘whored’ your way with god after god? And now you want to come back as if nothing had happened.” God’s Decree.
- Christian Standard Bible - 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.
- New King James Version - “They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes another man’s, May he return to her again?’ Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.
- Amplified Bible - That is to say, “If a man divorces his wife And she goes [away] from him And becomes another man’s [wife], Will he return to her again? [Of course not!] Will not that land [where such a thing happened] be completely desecrated? But you [rebelled against Me and you] are a prostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me.” says the Lord.
- American Standard Version - 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.
- King James Version - 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.
- New English Translation - “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the Lord.
- World English 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 Yahweh.
- 新標點和合本 - 有話說：人若休妻， 妻離他而去，作了別人的妻， 前夫豈能再收回她來？ 若收回她來，那地豈不是大大玷污了嗎？ 但你和許多親愛的行邪淫， 還可以歸向我。 這是耶和華說的。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 耶和華說 ：「人若休妻， 妻離他而去，做了別人的妻子， 前夫豈能再回到她那裏呢？ 那地豈不是大大污穢了嗎？ 但你和許多情郎行淫， 還是可以回到我這裏。 這是耶和華說的。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 耶和華說 ：「人若休妻， 妻離他而去，做了別人的妻子， 前夫豈能再回到她那裏呢？ 那地豈不是大大污穢了嗎？ 但你和許多情郎行淫， 還是可以回到我這裏。 這是耶和華說的。
- 當代譯本 - 耶和華說：「如果丈夫休掉妻子， 妻子離去另嫁別人， 前夫怎會再娶她呢？ 那樣做豈不完全玷污了土地嗎？ 你曾與許多情人苟合， 現在要歸向我嗎？
- 聖經新譯本 - 耶和華說：“人若是休妻， 妻子離開了他， 又嫁了別人， 前夫怎能與她復合呢？ 如果復合，那地不是大大玷污了嗎？ 你曾與許多情人行淫， 還想歸向我。” 這是耶和華的宣告。
- 呂振中譯本 - 永恆主的話傳與我 ，說： 『人若把妻子離出去， 而妻子離開他而去， 做了別人的妻子， 她哪能再回轉來歸前夫呢？ 那麼那婦人 豈不是 大大被玷污了麼？ 然而你，你和許多情人行淫， 還要回轉來歸於我？ 永恆主發神諭說。
- 現代標點和合本 - 「有話說，人若休妻， 妻離他而去，做了別人的妻， 前夫豈能再收回她來？ 若收回她來，那地豈不是大大玷汙了嗎？ 但你和許多親愛的行邪淫， 還可以歸向我。」 這是耶和華說的。
- 文理和合譯本 - 有曰、人出其妻、妻離之而他適、前夫豈復納之、若然、斯地非受污之甚乎、耶和華曰、惟爾相愛者眾、與之行淫、猶思歸我乎、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 有言出妻、任其他適、既出勿納、恐斯邦染其污衊。耶和華曰、惟爾縱欲背予、崇事他上帝、今使爾歸試於我、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主有言諭我 曰、人若出妻、遂離之為他人之妻、前夫豈可復娶之乎、如復娶、豈不使地沾染污穢乎、爾從事多神、若婦之與多人行淫、猶思歸我乎、 爾從事多神若婦之與多人行淫猶思歸我乎或作爾雖崇事多神若婦之與多人行淫我仍命爾當歸誠於我 此乃主所言、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - »Supongamos que un hombre se divorcia de su mujer, y que ella lo deja para casarse con otro. ¿Volvería el primero a casarse con ella? ¡Claro que no! Semejante acción contaminaría por completo la tierra. Pues bien, tú te has prostituido con muchos amantes, y ya no podrás volver a mí —afirma el Señor—.
- 현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 말씀하신다. “만일 어떤 남자가 자기 아내와 이혼을 하고 또 그 아내는 그를 떠나 다른 남자와 재혼을 했다면 본남편이 그녀에게 다시 돌아갈 수 있겠느냐? 만일 그렇게 한다면 그 땅이 완전히 더럽혀지지 않겠느냐? 이스라엘아, 네가 많은 무리와 음란한 짓을 하고서도 나에게 돌아오려고 하느냐?
- Новый Русский Перевод - – Если муж разведется с женой, и она от него уйдет и станет женой другому, то разве первый муж примет ее назад? Разве этим не осквернится земля? Ты жила как блудница со многими, а теперь хочешь вернуться ко Мне? – возвещает Господь. –
- Восточный перевод - Если муж разведётся с женой, и она от него уйдёт и станет женой другому, то разве первый муж примет её назад? Разве не осквернится этим земля? Ты жила как блудница со многими, а теперь хочешь вернуться ко Мне? – возвещает Вечный. –
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Если муж разведётся с женой, и она от него уйдёт и станет женой другому, то разве первый муж примет её назад? Разве не осквернится этим земля? Ты жила как блудница со многими, а теперь хочешь вернуться ко Мне? – возвещает Вечный. –
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Если муж разведётся с женой, и она от него уйдёт и станет женой другому, то разве первый муж примет её назад? Разве не осквернится этим земля? Ты жила как блудница со многими, а теперь хочешь вернуться ко Мне? – возвещает Вечный. –
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Que dire ? ╵Si un mari ╵répudie son épouse, qu’elle le quitte ╵pour appartenir à un autre, est-ce que son ancien mari ╵retournera vers elle ? Le pays n’en serait-il pas souillé ? Or, toi, qui t’es prostituée ╵avec de nombreux partenaires, tu reviendrais à moi ! déclare l’Eternel.
- リビングバイブル - ある人が妻を離縁し、彼女が再婚した場合、 彼女が再び戻って来ても妻にすることはできない という法律がある。 彼女は汚れた者となっているからだ。 だが、おまえたちは、わたしを置き去りにして 幾人もの恋人と結婚しておきながら、 あつかましくも、またわたしのもとへ帰ると言っている。
- Nova Versão Internacional - “Se um homem se divorciar de sua mulher e depois da separação ela casar-se com outro homem, poderá o primeiro marido voltar para ela? Não seria a terra totalmente contaminada? Mas você tem se prostituído com muitos amantes e, agora, quer voltar para mim?”, pergunta o Senhor.
- Hoffnung für alle - »So spricht der Herr: Wenn ein Mann sich von seiner Frau scheiden lässt und sie einen anderen heiratet, darf er sie dann später wieder zur Frau nehmen? Würde dadurch nicht das ganze Land entweiht? Du aber, Volk Israel, hast dich mit vielen Liebhabern eingelassen – und jetzt willst du zu mir zurückkommen?
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Nếu một người nam ly dị một người nữ rồi người ấy đi và lấy chồng khác, thì người nam không thể lấy nàng trở lại, vì điều đó chắc chắn sẽ làm ô uế xứ. Nhưng ngươi đã thông dâm với nhiều người tình, vậy tại sao ngươi còn định trở lại với Ta?” Chúa Hằng Hữu hỏi.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “หากชายใดหย่าขาดจากภรรยา และนางไปแต่งงานกับชายอีกคน เขาควรจะกลับไปหานางอีกหรือ? จะไม่ทำให้แผ่นดินแปดเปื้อนมลทินไปหมดหรอกหรือ? แต่เจ้าก็ใช้ชีวิตเยี่ยงโสเภณีที่มีชู้รักหลายคน บัดนี้เจ้าจะกลับมาหาเราหรือ?” องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศดังนั้น
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศดังนี้ “ถ้าชายผู้หนึ่งหย่าจากภรรยาของเขา เมื่อนางไปจากเขา และเป็นภรรยาของชายผู้อื่น แล้วเขาจะกลับไปหานางอีกไหม แผ่นดินนั้นจะไม่หมองหรือ เจ้าได้แสดงความเป็นหญิงแพศยาที่มีคนรักหลายคน แล้วเจ้าจะกลับมาหาเราอย่างนั้นหรือ
Cross Reference
- Isaiah 24:5 - The earth is also defiled by its inhabitants, for they violated laws, altered statutes, and broke the everlasting covenant.
- Leviticus 18:24 - ‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these things the nations which I am driving out from you have become defiled.
- Leviticus 18:25 - For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
- Leviticus 18:26 - But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and you shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the stranger who resides among you
- Leviticus 18:27 - (for the people of the land who were there before you did all these abominations, and the land has become defiled),
- Leviticus 18:28 - so that the land will not vomit you out should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which was there before you.
- Jeremiah 2:7 - I brought you into the fruitful land To eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, And you made My inheritance an abomination.
- Deuteronomy 22:21 - then they shall bring the girl out to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death, because she has committed a disgraceful sin in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father’s house; so you shall eliminate the evil from among you.
- Jeremiah 3:22 - “Return, you faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to You; For You are the Lord our God.
- Jeremiah 3:12 - Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord; ‘I will not look at you in anger. For I am gracious,’ declares the Lord; ‘I will not be angry forever.
- Jeremiah 3:13 - Only acknowledge your wrongdoing, That you have revolted against the Lord your God, And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every leafy tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 3:14 - ‘Return, you faithless sons,’ declares the Lord; ‘For I am a master to you, And I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, And bring you to Zion.’
- Micah 2:10 - Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.
- Luke 15:16 - And he longed to have his fill of the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving him anything.
- Luke 15:17 - But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired laborers have more than enough bread, but I am dying here from hunger!
- Luke 15:18 - I will set out and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;
- Luke 15:19 - I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired laborers.” ’
- Luke 15:20 - So he set out and came to his father. But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
- Luke 15:21 - And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
- Luke 15:22 - But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet;
- Luke 15:23 - and bring the fattened calf, slaughter it, and let’s eat and celebrate;
- Luke 15:24 - for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.
- Zechariah 1:3 - Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “Return to Me,” declares the Lord of armies, “ that I may return to you,” says the Lord of armies.
- Jeremiah 4:14 - Wash your heart from evil, Jerusalem, So that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts Lodge within you?
- Ezekiel 23:4 - Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they gave birth to sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
- Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah prostituted herself while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,
- Ezekiel 23:6 - who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them handsome young men, horsemen riding on horses.
- Ezekiel 23:7 - She bestowed her obscene practices on them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself.
- Ezekiel 23:8 - She did not abandon her obscene practices from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had slept with her, and they handled her virgin breasts and poured out their obscene practice on her.
- Ezekiel 23:9 - Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
- Ezekiel 23:10 - They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they killed her with the sword. So she became a subject of gossip among women, and they executed judgments on her.
- Ezekiel 23:11 - “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her obscene practices were more than the prostitution of her sister.
- Ezekiel 23:12 - She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, opulently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them handsome young men.
- Ezekiel 23:13 - And I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.
- Ezekiel 23:14 - So she increased her obscene practices. And she saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans drawn in bright red,
- Ezekiel 23:15 - wearing belts around their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
- Ezekiel 23:16 - And when she saw them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
- Ezekiel 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their obscene practice. And when she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
- Ezekiel 23:18 - She exposed her obscene practices and exposed her nakedness; then I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister in disgust.
- Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her obscene practices, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 23:20 - She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose discharge is like the discharge of horses.
- Ezekiel 23:21 - So you longed for the outrageous sin of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your breasts because of the breasts of your youth.
- Ezekiel 23:22 - “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold I am going to incite your lovers against you, from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
- Ezekiel 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; handsome young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
- Ezekiel 23:24 - And they will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a contingent of peoples. They will attack you on every side with shield, buckler, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs.
- Ezekiel 23:25 - I will set My jealousy against you, so that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire.
- Ezekiel 23:26 - They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewelry.
- Ezekiel 23:27 - So I will remove from you your outrageous sin and your prostitution that you brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not raise your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’
- Ezekiel 23:28 - For this is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am going to hand you over to those whom you hate, to those from whom you turned away in disgust.
- Ezekiel 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, both your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.
- Ezekiel 23:30 - These things will be done to you because you have adulterously pursued the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.
- Ezekiel 23:31 - You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put her cup in your hand.’
- Ezekiel 23:32 - This is what the Lord God says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision; Because it contains much.
- Ezekiel 23:33 - You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, A cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.
- Ezekiel 23:34 - And you will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw on its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 23:35 - Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and discarded Me behind your back, suffer on your own part the punishment for your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.’ ”
- Ezekiel 23:36 - Moreover, the Lord said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
- Ezekiel 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. So they have committed adultery with their idols, and even made their sons, whom they bore to Me, pass through the fire to them as food.
- Ezekiel 23:38 - Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned My Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 23:39 - For when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and behold, this is what they did within My house.
- Ezekiel 23:40 - “Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from a great distance, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came—for whom you bathed, put makeup on your eyes, and adorned yourselves with jewelry;
- Ezekiel 23:41 - and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged in front of it on which you had set My incense and My oil.
- Ezekiel 23:42 - And the sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and heavy drinkers were brought from the wilderness with people from the multitude of humanity. And they put bracelets on the wrists of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.
- Ezekiel 23:43 - “Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, ‘ Will they now commit adultery with her when she is like this?’
- Ezekiel 23:44 - But they went in to her as they would go in to a prostitute. This is how they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
- Ezekiel 23:45 - But they, righteous people, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
- Ezekiel 23:46 - “For this is what the Lord God says: ‘Bring up a contingent against them and turn them over to terror and plunder.
- Ezekiel 23:47 - The contingent will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.
- Ezekiel 23:48 - So I will eliminate outrageous conduct from the land, so that all women will take warning and not commit outrageous sin as you have done.
- Ezekiel 23:49 - Your outrageous conduct will be repaid to you, and you will bear the guilt for your idols; so you will know that I am the Lord God.’ ”
- Judges 19:2 - But his concubine found him repugnant, and she left him and went to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah, and remained there for a period of four months.
- Ezekiel 33:11 - Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord God, ‘I take no pleasure at all in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then should you die, house of Israel?’
- Jeremiah 2:23 - “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley! Know what you have done! You are a swift young camel running about senselessly on her ways,
- Ezekiel 16:28 - Moreover, you committed prostitution with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you committed prostitution with them and still were not satisfied.
- Ezekiel 16:29 - You also multiplied your obscene practice with the land of merchants, Chaldea; yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”
- Hosea 1:2 - When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for the land commits flagrant infidelity, abandoning the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 3:9 - And because of the thoughtlessness of her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
- Deuteronomy 4:29 - But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 4:30 - When you are in distress and all these things happen to you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:31 - For the Lord your God is a compassionate God; He will not abandon you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.
- Isaiah 55:6 - Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
- Isaiah 55:7 - Let the wicked abandon his way, And the unrighteous person his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
- Isaiah 55:8 - “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
- Isaiah 55:9 - “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.
- Jeremiah 8:4 - “You shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Do people fall and not get up? Does one turn away and not repent?
- Jeremiah 8:5 - Why has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold on to deceit, They refuse to return.
- Jeremiah 8:6 - I have listened and heard, They have spoken what is not right; No one repented of his wickedness, Saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turned to his own course, Like a horse charging into the battle.
- Hosea 14:1 - Return, Israel, to the Lord your God, For you have stumbled because of your wrongdoing.
- Hosea 14:2 - Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him, “Take away all guilt And receive us graciously, So that we may present the fruit of our lips.
- Hosea 14:3 - Assyria will not save us, We will not ride on horses; Nor will we say again, ‘Our god’ To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds mercy.”
- Hosea 14:4 - I will heal their apostasy, I will love them freely, Because My anger has turned away from them.
- Hosea 2:5 - For their mother has committed prostitution; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
- Hosea 2:6 - Therefore, behold, I will obstruct her way with thorns, And I will build a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.
- Hosea 2:7 - And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband, Because it was better for me then than now!’
- Jeremiah 2:20 - “For long ago I broke your yoke And tore off your restraints; But you said, ‘I will not serve!’ For on every high hill And under every leafy tree You have lain down as a prostitute.
- Ezekiel 16:26 - You also committed prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your obscene practice to provoke Me to anger.
- Jeremiah 4:1 - “If you will return, Israel,” declares the Lord, “Then you should return to Me. And if you will put away your detestable things from My presence, And will not waver,
- Deuteronomy 24:1 - “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, that he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her away from his house,
- Deuteronomy 24:2 - and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife,
- Deuteronomy 24:3 - and the latter husband turns against her, writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand, and sends her away from his house, or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies,
- Deuteronomy 24:4 - then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.