Jeremiah 3:1

"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says the Lord.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:29But from there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 24:1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Judges 19:2His concubine was unfaithful to him and went away from him to her father's house in Bethlehem of Judah, and was there about four months.

Isaiah 55:6Seek the Lord while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

Jeremiah 2:20"For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:9It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

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 →

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