Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
“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
.
Saying,
`Lo,
one
sendeth
away
his wife ,
And she hath
gone
from
him ,
And
she
hath
been
to another man
, Doth
he turn
back
unto
her again
? Greatly
defiled
is
not that
land? And
thou
hast
committed
whoredom
with many lovers ,
And turn
again
to Me ,
an
affirmation
of
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 thine
eyes to the high
places,
and see ,
Where hast
thou
not been lain
with
? On
the ways
thou
hast
sat
for them
, As
an
Arab
in a
wilderness,
And
thou
defilest
the land ,
By
thy
fornications,
and by
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.
And
withheld are
showers
, and gathered
rain
hath
not
been
. The forehead
of a whorish
woman
thou
hast,
Thou
hast
refused
to be ashamed.
Have
you
not just
called to Me, ‘
My Father, You
are
my friend
from
youth .
Hast
thou
not henceforth
called to Me, `
My father, Thou
`art'
the
leader
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
. ”
Doth
He keep
to the age
? watch
for
ever?'
Lo,
these
things
thou
hast
spoken, And
thou
dost
the evil things,
and
prevailest
.
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.
And
Jehovah
saith
unto
me,
in the days of Josiah the king
, `Hast
thou
seen that
which
backsliding
Israel hath
done? She is
going
on every high mountain,
and unto
the
place
of
every green tree ,
and
committeth
fornication
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
.
And
I say,
after her
doing
all these, Unto
Me thou
dost
turn
back,
and
she hath
not turned
back
, and see
`it'
doth
her treacherous
sister Judah.
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
see
when
(for
all
the
causes
whereby
backsliding
Israel committed adultery )
I have
sent
her away,
and
I
give
the
bill
of her
divorce unto
her ,
that treacherous
Judah her
sister
hath
not
feared,
and goeth
and
committeth
fornication
--
she
also
.
Indifferent
to her own
infidelity
, Israel
had
defiled
the land and committed
adultery
with stones
and trees
.
And
it
hath
come
to pass,
from
the
vileness
of
her fornication
, that
the land is
defiled,
and she
committeth
fornication
with stone
and with
wood
.
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
even
in all this her treacherous
sister Judah hath
not turned
back
unto
Me with all her heart, but with
falsehood
, an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
. '
And the
LORD
said
to
me ,
“Faithless
Israel
has
shown
herself more righteous
than unfaithful
Judah.
And Jehovah
saith
unto
me :
`Justified
herself hath
backsliding
Israel,
More 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
thou
hast
proclaimed
these
words
toward the north, and
hast
said,
Turn
back,
O backsliding
Israel, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah!
I cause
not
Mine
anger to
fall
upon
you
, For I `
am '
kind
, an
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
I watch
not to
the
age
.
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, know
thine
iniquity,
For
against Jehovah
thy
God thou
hast
transgressed,
And
thou
dost
scatter
thy
ways
to strangers,
Under every green tree ,
And to
My voice thou
hast
not
hearkened
, An
affirmation
of
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 .
Turn
back
, O backsliding
sons
, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah.
For I have
ruled
over
you
, And taken
you one of
a city ,
and two of
a family ,
And have
brought
you to Zion ,
Then
I will
give
you shepherds after
My
own heart, who
will
feed
you with knowledge and understanding. ”
And
I have
given
to
you shepherds According
to
Mine
own heart, And
they
have
fed
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
hath
come
to
pass
, when ye
are
multiplied,
And have
been
fruitful
in the land, In
those
days
--
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
, They say
not
any
more,
`
The ark of the covenant of Jehovah,'
Nor
doth
it go
up
on
the
heart
, Nor
do
they
remember concerning
it, Nor do
they
inspect,
nor
is
it
made again
.
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
cry
to
Jerusalem ,
`O
throne of Jehovah
, '
And gathered
unto
her
hath
been
all the nations ,
For
the name of Jehovah,
to
Jerusalem,
Nor
do
they go
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 do
the house of Judah Go
unto
the house of Israel, And they come together from the land of the south,
unto
the land That I caused
your fathers to
inherit
.
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.
And
I have
said, How do
I put
thee
among
the
sons ,
And give to
thee
a desirable land, A
beauteous
inheritance of the hosts
of
nations ,
And
I say,
My
father
--
ye
do
call to
Me ,
And from after
Me ye
do
not
turn
back
.
But as
a woman may
betray
her husband
, so you
have betrayed
Me, O house of Israel, ”
declares
the
LORD
.
But --
a woman hath
deceived
her friend
, So ye
have dealt
treacherously
with
Me, O house of Israel, an
affirmation
of
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 on
high
places
is heard --
weeping
, Supplications
of
the sons
of Israel, For
they have made
perverse
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.
Turn
back
, O backsliding
sons
, I cause
your backslidings
to
cease
. --
Behold
us,
we have
come to 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
.
Surely in
vain
from the heights
, The multitude
of
mountains --
Surely 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.
And
the
shameful
thing
hath
devoured
The
labour
of
our
fathers
from our youth, Their flock
and their
herd
, 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 .”
We
have
lain
down in our shame ,
and
cover us doth
our
confusion,
For
against Jehovah
our God we
have
sinned
, We ,
and our fathers ,
from our youth even unto
this day ,
Nor
have we
hearkened
to
the voice of Jehovah
our God !
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