Jeremiah 3
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They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

they say. Heb. saying. If a man

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass …

shall not that

Jeremiah 3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her prostitution, that …

Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof …

Leviticus 18:24-28 Defile not you yourselves in any of these things: for in all these …

Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because …

Micah 2:10 Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, …

but thou hast

Jeremiah 2:20,23 For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and …

Deuteronomy 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's …

Judges 19:2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from …

Ezekiel 16:26,28,29 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors, …

Ezekiel 23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: …

Hosea 1:2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said …

Hosea 2:5-7 For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has …

yet return

Jeremiah 3:12-14,22 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you …

Jeremiah 4:1,14 If you will return, O Israel, said the LORD, return to me: and if …

Jeremiah 8:4-6 Moreover you shall say to them, Thus said the LORD; Shall they fall, …

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find …

Isaiah 55:6-9 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near…

Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, As I live, said the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in …

Hosea 14:1-4 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity…

Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you …

Luke 15:16-24 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine …

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

the showers

Jeremiah 9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom …

Jeremiah 14:4,22 Because the ground is beat down, for there was no rain in the earth, …

Leviticus 26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven …

Deuteronomy 28:23 And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth …

Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there …

Joel 1:16-20 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from …

Amos 4:7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three …

Haggai 1:11 And I called for a drought on the land, and on the mountains, and …

latter rain

Jeremiah 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, …

a whore's

Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but …

Jeremiah 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were …

Jeremiah 8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were …

Jeremiah 44:16,17 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, …

Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not …

Ezekiel 16:30-34 How weak is your heart, said the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these …

Zephaniah 3:5 The just LORD is in the middle thereof; he will not do iniquity: …

thou refusedst

Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but …

Nehemiah 9:17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you …

Zechariah 7:11,12 But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped …

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not …

Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
The LORD said also 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.
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

toward the north

Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel…

Jeremiah 23:8 But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the …

Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them …

2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, …

2 Kings 17:6,23 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and …

2 Kings 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king …

return

Jeremiah 3:1,7,22 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become …

Jeremiah 4:1 If you will return, O Israel, said the LORD, return to me: and if …

Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as …

Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, As I live, said the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in …

Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will …

Hosea 14:1-3 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity…

and I will not

Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you, said the LORD, to save you: though I make a full …

Jeremiah 33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant…

Ezekiel 39:25 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity …

Hosea 11:8,9 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? …

for I am

Jeremiah 31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke …

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find …

2 Chronicles 30:9 For if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers and your children …

Psalm 86:5,15 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy …

Psalm 103:8,17 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy…

Psalm 145:8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …

Romans 5:20,21 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where …

I will

Jeremiah 3:5 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? …

Psalm 79:5 How long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

o backsliding

Jeremiah 2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall …

for I am married

Jeremiah 3:1,8 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become …

Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said the LORD; …

Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …

Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and …

Hosea 2:19,20 And I will betroth you to me for ever; yes, I will betroth you to …

one of a city

Jeremiah 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where …

Jeremiah 31:8-10 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them …

Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we …

Isaiah 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be …

Isaiah 10:22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant …

Isaiah 11:11,12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his …

Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive …

Isaiah 24:13-15 When thus it shall be in the middle of the land among the people, …

Ezekiel 34:11-14 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my …

Zechariah 13:7-9 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is …

Romans 9:27 Esaias also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children …

Romans 11:4-6 But what said the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself …

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

and I

Jeremiah 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and …

1 Samuel 13:14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: the LORD has sought him …

Isaiah 30:20,21 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water …

Ezekiel 34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, …

Ezekiel 37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall …

Micah 5:4,5 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty …

John 10:1-5 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the …

John 21:15-17 So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of …

Ephesians 4:11,12 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; …

1 Peter 5:1-4 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and …

which shall

Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom …

John 21:15,17 So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of …

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …

1 Corinthians 2:6,12,13 However, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the …

1 Corinthians 3:1,2 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to …

Hebrews 5:12-14 For when for the time you ought to be teachers…

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may …

1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

when

Jeremiah 30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them …

Jeremiah 31:8,27 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them …

Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: …

Isaiah 61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former …

Ezekiel 36:8-12 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, …

Ezekiel 37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an …

Hosea 1:10,11 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of …

Amos 9:9,14,15 For, see, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among …

Zechariah 8:4,5 Thus said the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women …

Zechariah 10:7-9 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall …

say

Jeremiah 7:4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The …

Zephaniah 3:11 In that day shall you not be ashamed for all your doings, wherein …

Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: …

the ark

Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former …

Isaiah 66:1,2 Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my …

Matthew 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brothers, about the time they …

John 4:20-24 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem …

Hebrews 9:9-12 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered …

Hebrews 10:8,9,19-21 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and …

to mind. Heb. upon the heart. that be done. or it be magnified

At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

the throne

Jeremiah 14:21 Do not abhor us, for your name's sake, do not disgrace the throne …

Jeremiah 17:12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

Jeremiah 31:23 Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall …

Psalm 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting on …

Isaiah 66:1 Thus said the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my …

Ezekiel 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness …

Ezekiel 43:7 And he said to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place …

Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

and all the nations

Isaiah 2:2-4 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of …

Isaiah 49:18-23 Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves …

Isaiah 60:3-9 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness …

Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brothers for an offering to the LORD …

Micah 4:1-5 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of …

Zechariah 2:11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall …

Zechariah 8:20-23 Thus said the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there …

to the name

Isaiah 26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; …

Isaiah 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, …

Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory …

walk

Jeremiah 7:24 But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the …

Jeremiah 9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after …

Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one …

Jeremiah 16:12 And you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk …

Jeremiah 18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, …

Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …

Numbers 15:39 And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and …

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, …

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the …

2 Corinthians 10:4,5 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through …

Ephesians 4:17-19 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now …

imaginations. or, stubbornness

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which …

Judges 2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, …

Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; …

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 have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

how

Jeremiah 5:7 How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, …

Hosea 11:8 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? …

put thee

Jeremiah 3:4 Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?

Jeremiah 31:9,20 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them…

John 1:11-13 He came to his own, and his own received him not…

2 Corinthians 6:17,18 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, …

Galatians 3:26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:5-7 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the …

Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ …

1 John 3:1-3 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we …

pleasant land. Heb. land of desire

Jeremiah 12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion …

Psalm 106:24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

Ezekiel 20:6 In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them forth …

Daniel 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding …

Daniel 11:16,41,45 But he that comes against him shall do according to his own will, …

goodly heritage. Heb. heritage of glory, or beauty

Proverbs 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

1 Peter 1:3,4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ…

thou shalt

Jeremiah 3:4 Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?

Isaiah 63:16 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and …

Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our …

Matthew 6:8,9 Be not you therefore like to them: for your Father knows what things …

Romans 8:15-17 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but …

Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the …

shall not

Jeremiah 32:39,40 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me …

Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them that …

from me. Heb. from after me

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

lie down

Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel …

Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself …

Ezra 9:6-15 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to …

Psalm 109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves …

Isaiah 50:11 Behold, all you that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about …

Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!

Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall …

Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, …

Romans 6:21 What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? …

for we have sinned

Jeremiah 2:17,19 Have you not procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken …

Deuteronomy 31:17,18 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will …

Ezra 9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to …

Ezekiel 36:32 Not for your sakes do I this, said the Lord GOD, be it known to you: …

we and our

Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said the LORD; …

Ezra 9:7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass to …

Nehemiah 9:32-34 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, …

Psalm 106:7 Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered …

Isaiah 48:8 Yes, you heard not; yes, you knew not; yes, from that time that your …

Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Daniel 9:6-9 Neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, which spoke …

and have not

Jeremiah 22:21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. …

Judges 2:2 And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you …

Proverbs 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear …

Daniel 9:10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in …

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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