Jeremiah 3:1
If a man divorces his wife and she goes and marries someone else, could he ever go back to her? Wouldn't the country be made totally unclean by this? But you have done worse by prostituting yourselves with many lovers, and now you want to come back to me? declares the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 4:29However, if while you're there you decide to come to the Lord your God, you will find him if you come to him whole-heartedly, with complete commitment.
Deuteronomy 24:1Should a man marry a woman, but then isn't pleased with her because he finds out something shameful about her, he is allowed to write out a certificate of divorce for her, give it to her, and send her out of his house.
Judges 19:2But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father's house in Bethlehem. She was there for four months.
Isaiah 55:6Look for the Lord while you can still find him; call out to him while he's nearby.
Jeremiah 2:20You broke off your yoke and ripped off your chains long ago. “I won't worship you!” you declared. On the contrary, you lay down like a prostitute on every high hill and under every green tree.
Jeremiah 3:9Israel didn't care about the immorality, as she made herself and the land unclean, committing adultery by worshiping stones and trees.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:1
The foregoing chapter was wholly taken up with reproofs and threatenings against the people of God, for their apostasies from him; but in this chapter gracious invitations and encouragements are given them to return and repent, notwithstanding the multitude and greatness of their provocations, which are here specified, to magnify the mercy of God, and to show that as sin abounded grace did much more abound. Here, I. It is further shown how bad they had been and how well they deserved to be quite abandoned, and yet… Read the whole commentary →