Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
“
If a man divorces
his wife and she leaves
him to
marry
another, can
he ever
return to
her? Would
not such
a
land be completely
defiled
? But you
have
played the harlot with many lovers —
and
you
would
return to Me ?”
declares
the
LORD
.
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
.
“
Lift up your
eyes to
the barren
heights and see .
Is
there
any
place
where you
have
not been violated
? You
sat
beside
the highways
waiting
for your
lovers
, like
a
nomad
in the desert.
You
have
defiled
the land with your
prostitution
and wickedness.
Lift up thine
eyes unto
the bare
heights ,
and see ;
where hast
thou
not been lain
with
? By
the ways
hast
thou
sat
for them
, as
an
Arabian
in the wilderness;
and
thou
hast
polluted
the land with thy
whoredoms
and with
thy
wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withheld
, and no spring
rains
have
fallen.
Yet you
have
the
brazen
look
of
a prostitute;
you
refuse
to be ashamed.
Therefore the showers have been withholden
, and there
hath
been
no latter
rain;
yet thou
hast
a harlot's
forehead,
thou
refusedst
to be ashamed.
Have
you
not just
called
to
Me, ‘
My Father, You
are
my friend
from
youth .
Wilt
thou
not from
this
time
cry
unto
me, My Father, thou
art
the
guide
of
my youth ?
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
. ”
Will he retain
`his
anger'
for
ever
? will he keep
it
to the end? Behold
, thou
hast
spoken
and
hast
done
evil things,
and
hast
had
thy
way
.
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.
Moreover
Jehovah
said
unto
me
in the days of Josiah the king
, Hast
thou
seen that
which
backsliding
Israel hath
done? she is
gone up upon
every high mountain
and under every green tree ,
and
there hath
played
the
harlot
.
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.
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.
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
.
And
I
saw ,
when,
for
this
very
cause
that backsliding
Israel had committed adultery, I had
put
her away
and given
her a
bill
of
divorcement,
yet treacherous
Judah her
sister
feared
not;
but
she
also
went
and played
the
harlot
.
Indifferent
to her own
infidelity
, Israel
had
defiled
the land and committed adultery with stones and trees
.
And
it
came
to pass
through
the
lightness
of
her whoredom
, that
the land was
polluted,
and she
committed adultery with stones and with
stocks
.
Yet in
spite
of
all this ,
her unfaithful
sister Judah did
not return
to
Me with all
her heart, but only
in
pretense
, ”
declares
the
LORD
.
And
yet for
all this her treacherous
sister Judah hath
not returned
unto
me with her whole
heart, but feignedly
, saith
Jehovah
.
And the
LORD
said to
me, “Faithless
Israel has
shown
herself more righteous than unfaithful
Judah.
And Jehovah
said unto
me, Backsliding
Israel hath
showed
herself more righteous than treacherous
Judah.
Go, proclaim this
message
toward the north :
‘
Return, O
faithless
Israel, ’
declares
the
LORD.
‘
I will no
longer
look on
you
with
anger ,
for I am merciful, ’
declares
the
LORD.
‘
I will not be
angry
forever
.
Go, and
proclaim these
words
toward the north ,
and
say,
Return, thou
backsliding
Israel, saith
Jehovah;
I will not
look in
anger upon
you;
for I am merciful, saith
Jehovah,
I will not keep
`anger'
for
ever
.
Only acknowledge your
guilt
, that you
have
rebelled
against the
LORD
your
God .
You
have
scattered your
favors
to foreign
gods
under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice, ’”
declares
the
LORD
.
Only acknowledge thine
iniquity
, that thou
hast
transgressed
against Jehovah
thy
God ,
and
hast
scattered thy
ways
to the
strangers
under every green tree ,
and ye
have not obeyed my voice, saith
Jehovah
.
“
Return, O faithless
children, ”
declares
the
LORD,
“
for I am your
master,
and I will take you —
one from
a city and two from
a family —
and bring you to Zion .
Return, O backsliding
children, saith
Jehovah;
for I am a
husband
unto
you:
and I will take you one of
a city ,
and two of
a family ,
and I
will
bring you to Zion :
Then
I will give you shepherds after
My own
heart, who will
feed you with knowledge and understanding. ”
and
I will give you shepherds according
to
my heart, who shall
feed you with knowledge and understanding.
“In
those
days
, when you
multiply
and increase
in the land, ”
declares
the
LORD
, “
they will
no longer
discuss
the ark of the covenant of the
LORD.
It will
never
come to mind ,
and
no
one
will
remember it or
miss it ,
nor
will
another
one
be made.
And
it
shall
come
to
pass
, when ye
are
multiplied
and increased
in the land, in
those
days
, saith
Jehovah,
they shall
say
no more,
The ark of the covenant of Jehovah;
neither
shall
it come to mind ;
neither
shall
they
remember it ;
neither
shall
they
miss it ;
neither
shall
it
be made any
more
.
At that time Jerusalem will
be
called
The Throne of the
LORD,
and all the nations will
be gathered in
Jerusalem
to honor
the name of the
LORD.
They will
no
longer
follow
the stubbornness of their evil hearts
.
At that time they
shall
call
Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah;
and all the nations shall
be gathered unto
it,
to the name of Jehovah,
to
Jerusalem:
neither
shall
they walk
any
more
after
the stubbornness of their evil heart
.
In those days the house of Judah will
walk with the house of Israel, and they will
come together from
the land of the north to the land that I gave to
your
fathers
as
an inheritance.
In those days the house of Judah shall
walk with the house of Israel, and they shall
come together out
of
the land of the north to the land that I gave for
an inheritance unto
your
fathers
.
Then
I said, ‘
How I long
to
make
you
My
sons
and give you
a desirable
land, the most
beautiful
inheritance
of all
the nations! ’
I thought
you
would
call Me ‘
Father ’
and never
turn away from following Me.
But
I said, How I will
put
thee
among
the
children,
and give thee
a pleasant
land, a
goodly
heritage
of
the hosts
of the nations! and
I said,
Ye
shall
call me My
Father ,
and shall
not
turn away from following me.
But
as a woman
may
betray
her husband, so you
have betrayed
Me, O house of Israel, ”
declares
the
LORD
.
Surely
as a wife
treacherously
departeth
from
her husband, so have ye
dealt
treacherously
with
me, O house of Israel, saith
Jehovah
.
A voice is heard on
the barren
heights, the children of Israel weeping
and
begging
for
mercy,
because they have perverted their ways
and
forgotten the
LORD
their God.
A voice is heard upon
the bare
heights, the weeping
`and'
the
supplications
of
the
children of Israel ;
because they have perverted their way,
they
have
forgotten Jehovah
their God.
“
Return, O
faithless
children, and
I will heal your faithlessness
. ”
“Here
we are .
We
come to
You,
for You
are
the
LORD
our God.
Return, ye
backsliding
children, I will heal your backslidings
. Behold,
we are come unto
thee;
for thou
art
Jehovah
our God.
Surely
deception
comes
from the hills, and
commotion
from
the mountains .
Surely
the salvation of Israel is
in
the
LORD
our
God
.
Truly
in
vain
is
`the
help
that
is
looked
for'
from the hills, the tumult
on
the
mountains :
truly
in
Jehovah
our
God
is
the salvation of Israel.
From our youth, that
shameful
god
has
consumed
what
our
fathers
have
worked
for—
their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
But
the
shameful
thing
hath
devoured
the
labor
of
our
fathers
from our youth, their flocks and their
herds, their sons and their
daughters.
Let us lie down in our shame ;
let our disgrace
cover us .
We have sinned against the
LORD
our God, both
we and our fathers ;
from our youth even to
this day we have not obeyed the voice of the
LORD
our God. ”
Let us lie down in our shame ,
and
let our confusion
cover us ;
for
we have sinned against Jehovah
our God, we and our fathers ,
from our youth even unto
this day ;
and
we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah
our God.
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