g[See ver. 1 above]
n[See ver. 1 above]
s[See ver. 1 above]
am[See ver. 4 above]
bp[See ver. 13 above]
ca[See ver. 15 above]
ch[See ver. 15 above]
cn[See ver. 33 above]
de[See ver. 40 above]
eg[See ver. 53 above]
ei[See ver. 53 above]
fq[See ver. 5 above]
fr[See ver. 7 above]

Jeremiah 3:1-15

1 aIf
Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
cWould not that land be greatly polluted?
dYou have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?

declares the Lord.
2Lift up your eyes to ethe bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
fBy the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
gYou have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
3 hTherefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have ithe forehead of a whore;
you refuse to be ashamed.
4Have you not just now jcalled to me,
‘My father, you are the friend of my youth
5 kwill he be angry forever,
will he be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.”

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

6The Lord said to me in the days of lKing Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, mhow she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there nplayed the whore? 7And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous osister Judah saw it. 8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, pI had sent her away with qa decree of divorce. rYet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went sand played the whore. 9Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with tstone and tree. 10Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me uwith her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

11And the Lord said to me, vFaithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12Go, and proclaim these words toward wthe north, and say,

x“‘Return, faithless Israel,

declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for yI am merciful,

declares the Lord;
zI will not be angry forever.
13 aaOnly acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under abevery green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,

declares the Lord.
14 acReturn, O faithless children,

declares the Lord;
adfor I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.
15“‘And aeI will give you shepherds after my own heart, afwho will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Ezekiel 16

The Lord’s Faithless Bride

1Again the word of the Lord came to me: 2 agSon of man, ahmake known to Jerusalem her abominations, 3and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an aiAmorite and your mother a ajHittite. 4And as for your birth, akon the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, albut you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, amon the day that you were born.

6“And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing anin your blood, I said to you aoin your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you apin your blood, ‘Live!’ 7 aqI made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall arand arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet asyou were naked and bare.

8“When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and atI spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you auand entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, avand you became mine. 9Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and awanointed you with oil. 10 axI clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
Or with rich fabric
11 azAnd I adorned you with ornaments and baput bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. 12And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. bbYou ate fine flour and honey and oil. bcYou grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 14And bdyour renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

15 be“But you trusted in your beauty bfand played the whore
Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
because of your renown bhand lavished your whorings
Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
on any passerby; your beauty
Hebrew it
became his.
16You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain
17You also took blyour beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and bmmade for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, bnand set my oil and my incense before them. 19 boAlso my bread that I gave you— bpI fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for bqa pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. 20 brAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and bsthese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember btthe days of your youth, buwhen you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

23“And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), 24you built yourself bva vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25At the head of every street bwyou built your lofty place and made bxyour beauty an abomination, byoffering yourself
Hebrew spreading your legs
to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
26 caYou also played the whore cbwith the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, ccmultiplying your whoring, cdto provoke me to anger. 27Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you ceand diminished your allotted portion cfand delivered you to the greed of your enemies, cgthe daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 chYou played the whore also ciwith the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land cjof Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

30How sick is your heart,
Revocalization yields  How I am filled with anger against you
declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
31building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, clbecause you scorned payment. 32Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33Men give gifts to all prostitutes, cmbut you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and cnyou gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

35Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord: 36Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, coand because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37therefore, behold, cpI will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and cqall those you hated. crI will gather them against you from every side csand will uncover your nakedness to them, that ctthey may see all your nakedness. 38 cuAnd I will judge you cvas women who commit adultery and cwshed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your cxvaulted chamber and break down cyyour lofty places. czThey shall strip you of your clothes and take dayour beautiful jewels and leave you dbnaked and bare. 40 dcThey shall bring up a crowd against you, ddand they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 deAnd they shall dfburn your houses and dgexecute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. dhI will make you stop playing the whore, and diyou shall also give payment no more. 42 djSo will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. 43Because you have not remembered dkthe days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, dlI have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not dmcommitted lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

44Behold, everyone dnwho uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ 45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of doyour sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. dpYour mother was a Hittite and dqyour father an Amorite. 46And dryour elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and dsyour younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. 47 dtNot only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time duyou were more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48 dvAs I live, declares the Lord God, your sister dwSodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, dxexcess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50They were haughty and dydid an abomination before me. So dzI removed them, when I saw it. 51 eaSamaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and ebhave made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. 52 ecBear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

53 ed“I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, 54that you may bear your disgrace eeand be ashamed of all that you have done, efbecoming a consolation to them. 55As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, egand Samaria and her daughters shall return ehto their former state, eiand you and your daughters shall return ejto your former state. 56Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth ekin the day of your pride, 57before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become elan object of reproach for the daughters of Syria
Some manuscripts (compare Syriac)  of Edom
and all those around her, and for enthe daughters of the Philistines, eothose all around who despise you.
58 epYou bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.

The Lord’s Everlasting Covenant

59For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you eqwho have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, 60yet erI will remember my covenant with you esin the days of your youth, etand I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 61 euThen you will remember your ways evand be ashamed when you take ewyour sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you exas daughters, but not on account of
Or  not apart from
the covenant with you.
62I will establish my covenant with you, ezand you shall know that I am the Lord, 63that you may remember and be confounded, and fanever open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 17

Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine

1The word of the Lord came to me: 2 fbSon of man, fcpropound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; 3say, Thus says the Lord God: fdA great eagle fewith great wings and long pinions, ffrich in plumage of many colors, came fgto Lebanon fhand took the top of the cedar. 4He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants. 5Then he took of the seed of the land fiand planted it in fertile soil.
Hebrew  in a field of seed
He placed it beside abundant waters. fkHe set it like a willow twig,
6and it sprouted and became a fllow fmspreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.

7 fn“And there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage, foand behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him from fpthe bed where it was planted, that he might water it. 8 fqIt had been planted on good soil by abundant waters, that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine.

9Say, Thus says the Lord God: frWill it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots. 10Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? fsWill it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”

11Then the word of the Lord came to me: 12Say now to ftthe rebellious house, fuDo you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, fvthe king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon. 13 fwAnd he took one of the royal offspring
Hebrew seed
fyand made a covenant with him, fzputting him under oath ( gathe chief men of the land he had taken away),
14that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and keep his covenant that it might stand. 15 gbBut he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors gcto Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. gdWill he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he gebreak the covenant and yet escape?

16 gf“As I live, declares the Lord God, surely ggin the place where the king dwells ghwho made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die. 17 giPharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, gjwhen mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives. 18He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape. 19Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head. 20 gkI will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon gland enter into judgment with him there gmfor the treachery he has committed against me. 21And all the pick
Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts  all the fugitives
of his troops shall fall by the sword, goand the survivors shall be scattered to every wind, and you shall know that gpI am the Lord; I have spoken.”

22Thus says the Lord God: gq“I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. grI will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and gsI myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. 23 gtOn the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. guAnd under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. 24And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; gvI bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up gwthe green tree, and make gxthe dry tree flourish. gyI am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

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