Jeremiah 4:1 “If you want to come back, O Israel, you must really come back to me. You must get rid of your stinking sin paraphernalia and not wander away from me anymore...

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The Message - “If you want to come back, O Israel, you must really come back to me. You must get rid of your stinking sin paraphernalia and not wander away from me anymore. Then you can say words like, ‘As God lives . . . ’ and have them mean something true and just and right. And the godless nations will get caught up in the blessing and find something in Israel to write home about.” * * *
新标点和合本 - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回来归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被迁移。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回转，回转归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，不再犹疑不定，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回转，回转归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，不再犹疑不定，
当代译本 - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，如果你回转，回转归向我，从我眼前除掉可憎的神像，不再离开我；
圣经新译本 - “以色列啊！你要是回转，就当回转归向我。” 这是耶和华的宣告。 “如果你从我面前除掉你可憎的偶像，不到处浪荡；
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回来归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被迁移。
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回来归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被迁移。
New International Version - “If you, Israel, will return, then return to me,” declares the Lord. “If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray,
New International Reader's Version - “If you, Israel, will return,” announces the Lord, “then return to me. Put the statues of your gods out of my sight. I hate them. Stop going astray.
English Standard Version - “If you return, O Israel, declares the Lord, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver,
New Living Translation - “O Israel,” says the Lord, “if you wanted to return to me, you could. You could throw away your detestable idols and stray away no more.
Christian Standard Bible - If you return, Israel — this is the Lord’s declaration — you will return to me, if you remove your abhorrent idols from my presence and do not waver,
New American Standard Bible - “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,
New King James Version - “If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord, “Return to Me; And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, Then you shall not be moved.
Amplified Bible - “If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord, “If you will return to Me, And if you will put away your detestable things and remove your man-made gods from My sight, And not stray or waver,
American Standard Version - If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;
King James Version - If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
New English Translation - “If you, Israel, want to come back,” says the Lord, “if you want to come back to me you must get those disgusting idols out of my sight and must no longer go astray.
World English Bible - “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
新標點和合本 - 耶和華說：以色列啊，你若回來歸向我，若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被遷移。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 耶和華說：「以色列啊，你若回轉，回轉歸向我，若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，不再猶疑不定，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 耶和華說：「以色列啊，你若回轉，回轉歸向我，若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，不再猶疑不定，
當代譯本 - 耶和華說：「以色列啊，如果你回轉，回轉歸向我，從我眼前除掉可憎的神像，不再離開我；
聖經新譯本 - “以色列啊！你要是回轉，就當回轉歸向我。” 這是耶和華的宣告。 “如果你從我面前除掉你可憎的偶像，不到處浪蕩；
呂振中譯本 - 永恆主發神諭說：『以色列啊，你若轉回，轉回來歸我吧！你若從我面前除掉你可憎之像，而不漫遊無拘，
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華說：「以色列啊，你若回來歸向我，若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被遷移。
文理和合譯本 - 耶和華曰、以色列歟、爾若返而歸我、若於我前屏爾可憎之物、則不被遷移、
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華曰、以色列族與、如爾歸誠、則可返爾故士、如爾棄可惡之物、則我不遷徙爾。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主曰、以色列歟、如爾歸誠於我、則爾必返故土、如於我前除爾可憎之事、則爾必不復流離、流離或作被遷徙
Nueva Versión Internacional - «Israel, si piensas volver, vuélvete a mí —afirma el Señor—. Si quitas de mi vista tus ídolos abominables y no te alejas de mí,
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 말씀하신다. “이스라엘아, 네가 돌아오려거든 나에게 돌아오너 라. 네가 만일 내가 지긋지긋하게 여기는 우상을 내 앞에서 제거하고 마음이 흔들리지 않으며
Новый Русский Перевод - – Если вернешься, Израиль, – возвещает Господь, – если вернешься ко Мне, уберешь мерзких идолов, что предо Мной, и не будешь больше скитаться,
Восточный перевод - – Если вернёшься, Исраил, – возвещает Вечный, – если вернёшься ко Мне, удалишь мерзких идолов с глаз Моих и не будешь больше скитаться,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Если вернёшься, Исраил, – возвещает Вечный, – если вернёшься ко Мне, удалишь мерзких идолов с глаз Моих и не будешь больше скитаться,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Если вернёшься, Исроил, – возвещает Вечный, – если вернёшься ко Мне, удалишь мерзких идолов с глаз Моих и не будешь больше скитаться,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Si tu reviens, ô Israël, ╵si tu reviens à moi, l’Eternel le déclare, si tu ôtes de devant moi ╵tes abominations, sans plus errer de çà, de là,
リビングバイブル - 「イスラエルよ、本気でわたしのもとへ帰りたければ、偶像を完全に捨てよ。
Nova Versão Internacional - “Se você voltar, ó Israel, volte para mim”, diz o Senhor. “Se você afastar para longe de minha vista os seus ídolos detestáveis e não se desviar,
Hoffnung für alle - Der Herr lässt dir verkünden: »Kehr um, Israel, komm zurück zu mir! Wirf deine abscheulichen Götzen weg und wende dich nicht länger von mir ab.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa Hằng Hữu kêu gọi: “Ít-ra-ên ơi, ước gì ngươi trở về, quay lại với Ta. Nếu ngươi loại bỏ các thần tượng đáng ghê tởm và không còn lang bang nữa.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศว่า “อิสราเอลเอ๋ย หากเจ้าจะหันกลับมา หากเจ้าจะกลับมาหาเรา หากเจ้ากำจัดเทวรูปอันน่าชิงชังออกไปให้พ้นหน้าเรา และไม่หลงเตลิดอีกต่อไป
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศดังนี้ว่า “โอ อิสราเอลเอ๋ย ถ้าเจ้าจะกลับมา เจ้าก็จงกลับมาหาเรา ถ้าเจ้ากำจัดสิ่งที่น่าชังให้พ้นหน้าเรา และไม่หลงผิดอีก

交叉引用

Ezekiel 20:7 - “‘At that time I told them, “Get rid of all the vile things that you’ve become addicted to. Don’t make yourselves filthy with the Egyptian no-god idols. I alone am God, your God.”
Ezekiel 20:8 - “‘But they rebelled against me, wouldn’t listen to a word I said. None got rid of the vile things they were addicted to. They held on to the no-gods of Egypt as if for dear life. I seriously considered inflicting my anger on them in force right there in Egypt. Then I thought better of it. I acted out of who I was, not by how I felt. And I acted in a way that would evoke honor, not blasphemy, from the nations around them, nations who had seen me reveal myself by promising to lead my people out of Egypt. And then I did it: I led them out of Egypt into the desert.
2 Kings 23:24 - Josiah scrubbed the place clean and trashed spirit-mediums, sorcerers, domestic gods, and carved figures—all the vast accumulation of foul and obscene relics and images on display everywhere you looked in Judah and Jerusalem. Josiah did this in obedience to the words of God’s Revelation written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in The Temple of God.
Jeremiah 3:12 - “‘Turn back, fickle Israel. I’m not just hanging back to punish you. I’m committed in love to you. My anger doesn’t seethe nonstop. Just admit your guilt. Admit your God-defiance. Admit to your promiscuous life with casual partners, pulling strangers into the sex-and-religion groves While turning a deaf ear to me.’” God’s Decree. “Come back, wandering children!” God’s Decree. “I, yes I, am your true husband. I’ll pick you out one by one— This one from the city, these two from the country— and bring you to Zion. I’ll give you good shepherd-rulers who rule my way, who rule you with intelligence and wisdom.
Jeremiah 22:4 - “‘If you obey these commands, then kings who follow in the line of David will continue to go in and out of these palace gates mounted on horses and riding in chariots—they and their officials and the citizens of Judah. But if you don’t obey these commands, then I swear—God’s Decree!—this palace will end up a heap of rubble.’” * * *
2 Chronicles 15:8 - Asa heard the prophecy of Azariah son of Obed, took a deep breath, then rolled up his sleeves, and went to work: He cleaned out the obscene and polluting sacred shrines from the whole country of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim. He spruced up the Altar of God that was in front of The Temple porch. Then he called an assembly for all Judah and Benjamin, including those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were living there at the time (for many from Israel had left their homes and joined forces with Asa when they saw that God was on his side).
Joshua 24:14 - “So now: Fear God. Worship him in total commitment. Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshiped on the far side of The River (the Euphrates) and in Egypt. You, worship God.
Hosea 14:1 - O Israel, come back! Return to your God! You’re down but you’re not out. Prepare your confession and come back to God. Pray to him, “Take away our sin, accept our confession. Receive as restitution our repentant prayers. Assyria won’t save us; horses won’t get us where we want to go. We’ll never again say ‘our god’ to something we’ve made or made up. You’re our last hope. Is it not true that in you the orphan finds mercy?” * * *
1 Samuel 7:3 - Then Samuel addressed the house of Israel: “If you are truly serious about coming back to God, clean house. Get rid of the foreign gods and fertility goddesses, ground yourselves firmly in God, worship him and him alone, and he’ll save you from Philistine oppression.”
Isaiah 31:6 - Repent, return, dear Israel, to the One you so cruelly abandoned. On the day you return, you’ll throw away—every last one of you—the no-gods your sinful hands made from metal and wood.
Judges 10:16 - Then they cleaned house of the foreign gods and worshiped only God. And God took Israel’s troubles to heart.
Jeremiah 36:3 - “Maybe the community of Judah will finally get it, finally understand the catastrophe that I’m planning for them, turn back from their bad lives, and let me forgive their perversity and sin.”
Hosea 2:2 - “Haul your mother into court. Accuse her! She’s no longer my wife. I’m no longer her husband. Tell her to quit dressing like a whore, displaying her breasts for sale. If she refuses, I’ll rip off her clothes and expose her, naked as a newborn. I’ll turn her skin into dried-out leather, her body into a badlands landscape, a rack of bones in the desert. I’ll have nothing to do with her children, born one and all in a whorehouse. Face it: Your mother’s been a whore, bringing bastard children into the world. She said, ‘I’m off to see my lovers! They’ll wine and dine me, Dress and caress me, perfume and adorn me!’ But I’ll fix her: I’ll dump her in a field of thistles, then lose her in a dead-end alley. She’ll go on the hunt for her lovers but not bring down a single one. She’ll look high and low but won’t find a one. Then she’ll say, ‘I’m going back to my husband, the one I started out with. That was a better life by far than this one.’ She didn’t know that it was I all along who wined and dined and adorned her, That I was the one who dressed her up in the big-city fashions and jewelry that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies. I’m about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining! Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past. I’ll expose her genitals to the public. All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her. Party time is over. I’m calling a halt to the whole business, her wild weekends and unholy holidays. I’ll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains, of which she bragged, ‘Whoring paid for all this!’ They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage, feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats. I’ll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion— all that sensuous Baal worship And all the promiscuous sex that went with it, stalking her lovers, dressed to kill, And not a thought for me.” God’s Message!
Jeremiah 35:15 - “‘And what do I get from you? Deaf ears. The descendants of Jonadab son of Recab carried out to the letter what their ancestor commanded them, but this people ignores me.’
Ephesians 4:25 - What this adds up to, then, is this: no more lies, no more pretense. Tell your neighbor the truth. In Christ’s body we’re all connected to each other, after all. When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself.
Ephesians 4:26 - Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don’t use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry. Don’t give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life.
Ephesians 4:28 - Did you use to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work.
Ephesians 4:29 - Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift.
Ephesians 4:30 - Don’t grieve God. Don’t break his heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself. Don’t take such a gift for granted.
Ephesians 4:31 - Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.
Genesis 35:2 - Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, “Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we’re going to Bethel. I’m going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I’ve gone since.”
Jeremiah 3:1 - 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.
Jeremiah 3:22 - “We’re here! We’ve come back to you. You’re our own true God! All that popular religion was a cheap lie, duped crowds buying up the latest in gods. We’re back! Back to our true God, the salvation of Israel. The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us of what our ancestors bequeathed us, Gypped us out of our inheritance— God-blessed flocks and God-given children. We made our bed and now lie in it, all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor. All because we sinned against our God, we and our fathers and mothers. From the time we took our first steps, said our first words, we’ve been rebels, disobeying the voice of our God.” * * *
Joel 2:12 - But there’s also this, it’s not too late— God’s personal Message!— “Come back to me and really mean it! Come fasting and weeping, sorry for your sins!”

逐节对照

交叉引用

The Message - “If you want to come back, O Israel, you must really come back to me. You must get rid of your stinking sin paraphernalia and not wander away from me anymore. Then you can say words like, ‘As God lives . . . ’ and have them mean something true and just and right. And the godless nations will get caught up in the blessing and find something in Israel to write home about.” * * *
新标点和合本 - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回来归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被迁移。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回转，回转归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，不再犹疑不定，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回转，回转归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，不再犹疑不定，
当代译本 - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，如果你回转，回转归向我，从我眼前除掉可憎的神像，不再离开我；
圣经新译本 - “以色列啊！你要是回转，就当回转归向我。” 这是耶和华的宣告。 “如果你从我面前除掉你可憎的偶像，不到处浪荡；
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回来归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被迁移。
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华说：“以色列啊，你若回来归向我，若从我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被迁移。
New International Version - “If you, Israel, will return, then return to me,” declares the Lord. “If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray,
New International Reader's Version - “If you, Israel, will return,” announces the Lord, “then return to me. Put the statues of your gods out of my sight. I hate them. Stop going astray.
English Standard Version - “If you return, O Israel, declares the Lord, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver,
New Living Translation - “O Israel,” says the Lord, “if you wanted to return to me, you could. You could throw away your detestable idols and stray away no more.
Christian Standard Bible - If you return, Israel — this is the Lord’s declaration — you will return to me, if you remove your abhorrent idols from my presence and do not waver,
New American Standard Bible - “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,
New King James Version - “If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord, “Return to Me; And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, Then you shall not be moved.
Amplified Bible - “If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord, “If you will return to Me, And if you will put away your detestable things and remove your man-made gods from My sight, And not stray or waver,
American Standard Version - If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;
King James Version - If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
New English Translation - “If you, Israel, want to come back,” says the Lord, “if you want to come back to me you must get those disgusting idols out of my sight and must no longer go astray.
World English Bible - “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
新標點和合本 - 耶和華說：以色列啊，你若回來歸向我，若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被遷移。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 耶和華說：「以色列啊，你若回轉，回轉歸向我，若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，不再猶疑不定，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 耶和華說：「以色列啊，你若回轉，回轉歸向我，若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，不再猶疑不定，
當代譯本 - 耶和華說：「以色列啊，如果你回轉，回轉歸向我，從我眼前除掉可憎的神像，不再離開我；
聖經新譯本 - “以色列啊！你要是回轉，就當回轉歸向我。” 這是耶和華的宣告。 “如果你從我面前除掉你可憎的偶像，不到處浪蕩；
呂振中譯本 - 永恆主發神諭說：『以色列啊，你若轉回，轉回來歸我吧！你若從我面前除掉你可憎之像，而不漫遊無拘，
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華說：「以色列啊，你若回來歸向我，若從我眼前除掉你可憎的偶像，你就不被遷移。
文理和合譯本 - 耶和華曰、以色列歟、爾若返而歸我、若於我前屏爾可憎之物、則不被遷移、
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華曰、以色列族與、如爾歸誠、則可返爾故士、如爾棄可惡之物、則我不遷徙爾。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主曰、以色列歟、如爾歸誠於我、則爾必返故土、如於我前除爾可憎之事、則爾必不復流離、流離或作被遷徙
Nueva Versión Internacional - «Israel, si piensas volver, vuélvete a mí —afirma el Señor—. Si quitas de mi vista tus ídolos abominables y no te alejas de mí,
현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 말씀하신다. “이스라엘아, 네가 돌아오려거든 나에게 돌아오너 라. 네가 만일 내가 지긋지긋하게 여기는 우상을 내 앞에서 제거하고 마음이 흔들리지 않으며
Новый Русский Перевод - – Если вернешься, Израиль, – возвещает Господь, – если вернешься ко Мне, уберешь мерзких идолов, что предо Мной, и не будешь больше скитаться,
Восточный перевод - – Если вернёшься, Исраил, – возвещает Вечный, – если вернёшься ко Мне, удалишь мерзких идолов с глаз Моих и не будешь больше скитаться,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Если вернёшься, Исраил, – возвещает Вечный, – если вернёшься ко Мне, удалишь мерзких идолов с глаз Моих и не будешь больше скитаться,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Если вернёшься, Исроил, – возвещает Вечный, – если вернёшься ко Мне, удалишь мерзких идолов с глаз Моих и не будешь больше скитаться,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Si tu reviens, ô Israël, ╵si tu reviens à moi, l’Eternel le déclare, si tu ôtes de devant moi ╵tes abominations, sans plus errer de çà, de là,
リビングバイブル - 「イスラエルよ、本気でわたしのもとへ帰りたければ、偶像を完全に捨てよ。
Nova Versão Internacional - “Se você voltar, ó Israel, volte para mim”, diz o Senhor. “Se você afastar para longe de minha vista os seus ídolos detestáveis e não se desviar,
Hoffnung für alle - Der Herr lässt dir verkünden: »Kehr um, Israel, komm zurück zu mir! Wirf deine abscheulichen Götzen weg und wende dich nicht länger von mir ab.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa Hằng Hữu kêu gọi: “Ít-ra-ên ơi, ước gì ngươi trở về, quay lại với Ta. Nếu ngươi loại bỏ các thần tượng đáng ghê tởm và không còn lang bang nữa.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศว่า “อิสราเอลเอ๋ย หากเจ้าจะหันกลับมา หากเจ้าจะกลับมาหาเรา หากเจ้ากำจัดเทวรูปอันน่าชิงชังออกไปให้พ้นหน้าเรา และไม่หลงเตลิดอีกต่อไป
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศดังนี้ว่า “โอ อิสราเอลเอ๋ย ถ้าเจ้าจะกลับมา เจ้าก็จงกลับมาหาเรา ถ้าเจ้ากำจัดสิ่งที่น่าชังให้พ้นหน้าเรา และไม่หลงผิดอีก

Ezekiel 20:7 - “‘At that time I told them, “Get rid of all the vile things that you’ve become addicted to. Don’t make yourselves filthy with the Egyptian no-god idols. I alone am God, your God.”
Ezekiel 20:8 - “‘But they rebelled against me, wouldn’t listen to a word I said. None got rid of the vile things they were addicted to. They held on to the no-gods of Egypt as if for dear life. I seriously considered inflicting my anger on them in force right there in Egypt. Then I thought better of it. I acted out of who I was, not by how I felt. And I acted in a way that would evoke honor, not blasphemy, from the nations around them, nations who had seen me reveal myself by promising to lead my people out of Egypt. And then I did it: I led them out of Egypt into the desert.
2 Kings 23:24 - Josiah scrubbed the place clean and trashed spirit-mediums, sorcerers, domestic gods, and carved figures—all the vast accumulation of foul and obscene relics and images on display everywhere you looked in Judah and Jerusalem. Josiah did this in obedience to the words of God’s Revelation written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in The Temple of God.
Jeremiah 3:12 - “‘Turn back, fickle Israel. I’m not just hanging back to punish you. I’m committed in love to you. My anger doesn’t seethe nonstop. Just admit your guilt. Admit your God-defiance. Admit to your promiscuous life with casual partners, pulling strangers into the sex-and-religion groves While turning a deaf ear to me.’” God’s Decree. “Come back, wandering children!” God’s Decree. “I, yes I, am your true husband. I’ll pick you out one by one— This one from the city, these two from the country— and bring you to Zion. I’ll give you good shepherd-rulers who rule my way, who rule you with intelligence and wisdom.
Jeremiah 22:4 - “‘If you obey these commands, then kings who follow in the line of David will continue to go in and out of these palace gates mounted on horses and riding in chariots—they and their officials and the citizens of Judah. But if you don’t obey these commands, then I swear—God’s Decree!—this palace will end up a heap of rubble.’” * * *
2 Chronicles 15:8 - Asa heard the prophecy of Azariah son of Obed, took a deep breath, then rolled up his sleeves, and went to work: He cleaned out the obscene and polluting sacred shrines from the whole country of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim. He spruced up the Altar of God that was in front of The Temple porch. Then he called an assembly for all Judah and Benjamin, including those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were living there at the time (for many from Israel had left their homes and joined forces with Asa when they saw that God was on his side).
Joshua 24:14 - “So now: Fear God. Worship him in total commitment. Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshiped on the far side of The River (the Euphrates) and in Egypt. You, worship God.
Hosea 14:1 - O Israel, come back! Return to your God! You’re down but you’re not out. Prepare your confession and come back to God. Pray to him, “Take away our sin, accept our confession. Receive as restitution our repentant prayers. Assyria won’t save us; horses won’t get us where we want to go. We’ll never again say ‘our god’ to something we’ve made or made up. You’re our last hope. Is it not true that in you the orphan finds mercy?” * * *
1 Samuel 7:3 - Then Samuel addressed the house of Israel: “If you are truly serious about coming back to God, clean house. Get rid of the foreign gods and fertility goddesses, ground yourselves firmly in God, worship him and him alone, and he’ll save you from Philistine oppression.”
Isaiah 31:6 - Repent, return, dear Israel, to the One you so cruelly abandoned. On the day you return, you’ll throw away—every last one of you—the no-gods your sinful hands made from metal and wood.
Judges 10:16 - Then they cleaned house of the foreign gods and worshiped only God. And God took Israel’s troubles to heart.
Jeremiah 36:3 - “Maybe the community of Judah will finally get it, finally understand the catastrophe that I’m planning for them, turn back from their bad lives, and let me forgive their perversity and sin.”
Hosea 2:2 - “Haul your mother into court. Accuse her! She’s no longer my wife. I’m no longer her husband. Tell her to quit dressing like a whore, displaying her breasts for sale. If she refuses, I’ll rip off her clothes and expose her, naked as a newborn. I’ll turn her skin into dried-out leather, her body into a badlands landscape, a rack of bones in the desert. I’ll have nothing to do with her children, born one and all in a whorehouse. Face it: Your mother’s been a whore, bringing bastard children into the world. She said, ‘I’m off to see my lovers! They’ll wine and dine me, Dress and caress me, perfume and adorn me!’ But I’ll fix her: I’ll dump her in a field of thistles, then lose her in a dead-end alley. She’ll go on the hunt for her lovers but not bring down a single one. She’ll look high and low but won’t find a one. Then she’ll say, ‘I’m going back to my husband, the one I started out with. That was a better life by far than this one.’ She didn’t know that it was I all along who wined and dined and adorned her, That I was the one who dressed her up in the big-city fashions and jewelry that she wasted on wild Baal-orgies. I’m about to bring her up short: No more wining and dining! Silk lingerie and gowns are a thing of the past. I’ll expose her genitals to the public. All her fly-by-night lovers will be helpless to help her. Party time is over. I’m calling a halt to the whole business, her wild weekends and unholy holidays. I’ll wreck her sumptuous gardens and ornamental fountains, of which she bragged, ‘Whoring paid for all this!’ They will soon be dumping grounds for garbage, feeding grounds for stray dogs and cats. I’ll make her pay for her indulgence in promiscuous religion— all that sensuous Baal worship And all the promiscuous sex that went with it, stalking her lovers, dressed to kill, And not a thought for me.” God’s Message!
Jeremiah 35:15 - “‘And what do I get from you? Deaf ears. The descendants of Jonadab son of Recab carried out to the letter what their ancestor commanded them, but this people ignores me.’
Ephesians 4:25 - What this adds up to, then, is this: no more lies, no more pretense. Tell your neighbor the truth. In Christ’s body we’re all connected to each other, after all. When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself.
Ephesians 4:26 - Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don’t use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry. Don’t give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life.
Ephesians 4:28 - Did you use to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work.
Ephesians 4:29 - Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift.
Ephesians 4:30 - Don’t grieve God. Don’t break his heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself. Don’t take such a gift for granted.
Ephesians 4:31 - Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.
Genesis 35:2 - Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, “Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we’re going to Bethel. I’m going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I’ve gone since.”
Jeremiah 3:1 - 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.
Jeremiah 3:22 - “We’re here! We’ve come back to you. You’re our own true God! All that popular religion was a cheap lie, duped crowds buying up the latest in gods. We’re back! Back to our true God, the salvation of Israel. The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us of what our ancestors bequeathed us, Gypped us out of our inheritance— God-blessed flocks and God-given children. We made our bed and now lie in it, all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor. All because we sinned against our God, we and our fathers and mothers. From the time we took our first steps, said our first words, we’ve been rebels, disobeying the voice of our God.” * * *
Joel 2:12 - But there’s also this, it’s not too late— God’s personal Message!— “Come back to me and really mean it! Come fasting and weeping, sorry for your sins!”