Jer 3 | EngLXX | STEP | If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall shereturn to him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? you⌃ you have gone a-whoring withmany shepherds, and have returned to me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3

1 If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall shereturn to him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? you⌃ you have gone a-whoring withmany shepherds, and have returned to me, says the Lord. 2 Lift up your eyesto look straight forward, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat forthem by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness. 3 And you did retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself: you had a whore'sface, you did become shameless toward all. 4 Hast you not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of your virgin-time? 5 WillGod's anger continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and donethese bad things, and had powerto do them. 6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast you seen what things thehouse of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, andhave committed fornication there. 7 And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to me. Yetshe returned not. And faithless Juda saw her faithlessness. 8 And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israelcommitted adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement,) yet faithlessJuda feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication. 9 And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood andstone. 10 And for all these things faithless Juda turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely. 11 And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless Juda. 12 Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to me, O house ofIsrael, says the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and Iwill not be angry with you for ever. 13 Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, andhave scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not hearken to my voice, saysthe Lord. 14 Turn, you⌃ children that have revolted, says the Lord; for I will rule over you: andI will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Sion: 15 and I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend you withknowledge. 16 And it shall come to pass that when you⌃ are multiplied and increased upon the land,says the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Holy One of Israel:it shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shallthis be done any more. 17 In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; andall the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk any more after the imaginations of theirevil heart. 18 In those days the house of Juda, shall come together to the house of Israel, and theyshall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I causedtheir fathers to inherit. 19 And I said, So be it, Lord, foryou said I will set you among children, and will give you a choice land, the inheritance ofthe Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, You⌃ shall call me Father; and you⌃ shall not turn awayfrom me. 20 But as a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealttreacherously against me, says the Lord. 21 A voice from the lips was heard,even of weeping and supplication of the children of Israel: for they have dealt unrighteouslyin their ways, they have forgotten God their Holy One. 22 Turn, you⌃ children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold,we will be your servants; for you are the Lord our God. 23 Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lordour God is the salvation of Israel. 24 But shame has consumed the labors of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and theircalves, and their sons and their daughters. 25 We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us: because we and our fathershave sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of theLord our God.