Jeremiah 3:7
5 Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
6 Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
8 She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
9 Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
- KJV
- And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
- WEB
- I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
- ASV
- And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
- DARBY
- And I said, After she hath done all these [things], she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw [it].
- BLB
- And I said, after her doing all these [things], she will return to Me. And she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
- ÅB
- Og jeg sa: Når hun har gjort alt dette, vil hun vende tilbake til meg. Men hun vendte ikke tilbake, og det så hennes søster Juda, den troløse.
- OTB
- Jeg tenkte, ‘Etter at hun har gjort alt dette, vil hun vende tilbake til meg,’ men hun vendte ikke tilbake, og hennes troløse søster Juda så det.
- B1930
- Og jeg sa: Når hun har gjort alt dette, vil hun vende tilbake til mig. Men hun vendte ikke tilbake, og det så hennes søster Juda, den troløse.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 16:46
Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south.
Read in context2 Chronicles 30:6–12
So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
Read in contextHosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
Read in context2 Kings 17:13–14
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
Read in contextHosea 6:1–4
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
Read in contextEzekiel 23:2–4
“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
Read in contextJeremiah 3:8–11
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
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