The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 2:32 (NIV)

Does a young woman forget her jewellery,
a bride her wedding ornaments?
Yet my people have forgotten me,
days without number.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 2:33 (NKJV)
“Why do you beautify your way to seek love?
Therefore you have also taught
The wicked women your ways.

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 2:34 (NKJV)

Also on your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, but plainly on all these things.

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 2:35 (NKJV)

Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me.’ Behold, I will plead My case against you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

 

[iTheophilus]

Why do you gad about so much to change your way? Also you shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were ashamed of Assyria.

- Jeremiah 2:36 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Indeed you will go forth from him With your hands on your head; For the LORD has rejected your trusted allies, And you will not prosper by them.

- Jeremiah 2:37 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"They say, 'If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes another man's, May he return to her again?' Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me," says the LORD.

- Jeremiah 3:1 (NKJV)

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 3:2 (NKJV)
“Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Where have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wilderness; And you have polluted the land With your harlotries and your wickedness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 3:3 (NIV)

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 3:4 (NIV)

Have you not just called to me: “My Father, my friend from my youth,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 3:5 (NKJV)
Will He remain angry forever? Will He keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, As you were able.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 3:6 (NKJV)
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

 

[akaBeliever]

"And I said, after she had done all these things, 'Return to Me.' But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

- Jeremiah 3:7 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

- Jeremiah 3:8 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

- Jeremiah 3:9 (NKJV)

 

[akaBeliever]

"And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the LORD.

- Jeremiah 3:10 (NKJV)

 

[akaBeliever]

Then the LORD said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

- Jeremiah 3:11 (NKJV)

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 3:12 (NIV)

Go, proclaim this message towards the north:

‘“Return, faithless Israel,” declares the Lord,
“I will frown on you no longer,
for I am faithful,” declares the Lord,
“I will not be angry for ever.
​

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 3:13 (NIV)

Only acknowledge your guilt –
you have rebelled against the Lord your God,
you have scattered your favours to foreign gods
under every spreading tree,
and have not obeyed me,”’
declares the Lord.​

 

[iTheophilus]

"Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

- Jeremiah 3:14 (NKJV)