Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
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
.
“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
.
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.
“
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.
And
withheld
are
showers, and gathered
rain
hath
not
been
. The forehead
of a whorish
woman
thou
hast,
Thou
hast
refused
to be ashamed.
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.
Hast
thou
not henceforth
called to Me, `
My father, Thou
`art'
the
leader
of
my youth ?
Have
you
not just
called to Me, ‘
My Father, You
are
my friend
from
youth .
Doth
He keep
to the age?
watch
for
ever
? '
Lo,
these
things
thou
hast
spoken, And
thou
dost
the evil things,
and
prevailest
.
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
. ”
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.
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
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.
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
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
.
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
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
.
Indifferent
to her own
infidelity
, Israel
had
defiled
the land and committed
adultery
with stones
and trees
.
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
. '
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 Jehovah
saith
unto
me :
`Justified
herself
hath
backsliding
Israel
, More than treacherous
Judah.
And the
LORD
said
to
me, “Faithless
Israel
has
shown
herself
more righteous
than unfaithful
Judah.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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 ,
“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 .
And
I have
given
to
you shepherds According
to
Mine
own heart, And
they
have
fed
you with knowledge and understanding.
Then
I will
give
you shepherds after
My
own heart, who
will
feed
you with knowledge and understanding. ”
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
.
“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.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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 --
a woman hath
deceived
her friend
, So ye
have dealt
treacherously
with
Me, O house of Israel, an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
But as
a woman may
betray
her husband
, so you
have betrayed
Me, O house of Israel, ”
declares
the
LORD
.
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.
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.
Turn
back
, O backsliding
sons
, I cause
your backslidings
to
cease
. --
Behold
us,
we have
come to Thee
, For Thou
`art'
Jehovah
our 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.
Surely in
vain
from the heights
, The multitude
of
mountains --
Surely in
Jehovah
our
God
`is'
the salvation of Israel.
Surely deception
comes
from the hills
, and
commotion
from
the mountains .
Surely the salvation of Israel is
in
the
LORD
our
God
.
And
the
shameful
thing
hath
devoured
The
labour
of
our
fathers
from our youth, Their flock
and their
herd
, Their sons and their
daughters.
From our youth, that
shameful
god
has
consumed
what
our
fathers
have
worked
for—
their flocks
and herds
, their sons and daughters.
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 !
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 .”
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