11Then the Lord said to me: Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the, , and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the. All rights reserved worldwide. 15I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jeremiah 3:6–14 A Call to Repentance 6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and played the whore there? 4Have you not just now called to me, “My Father, you are the friend of my youth— 8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore. And I thought you would call me, My Father. And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the, , they shall no longer say, “The ark of the covenant of the. 1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”, New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 18In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your ancestors for a heritage. Would not such a land be greatly polluted? Jeremiah 31:3New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 3  the Lordappeared to him[a]from far away. so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel. 29 April 2019. 10Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says the Lord. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me. Jeremiah 3. Unfaithful Israel. 2 Look up to the bare heights, and see! Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the, our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the, Learn More About New Revised Standard Version. 16And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, they shall no longer say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It shall not come to mind, or be remembered, or missed; nor shall another one be made. Jeremiah 1 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV). says the Lord. 3 If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? and she goes from him. 13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the Lord your God, and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord. 3. “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our ancestors had labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says the. Cancel. 3 It came also in the days of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of King Zedekiah son of … Therefore the showers have been withheld, “My Father, you are the friend of my youth—. 3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore, you refuse to be ashamed. 2 The word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. From the oremus Bible Browser https://bible.oremus.org v2.5.1 29 April 2019. Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband. You have played the whore with many lovers; By the waysides you have sat waiting for lovers. By the waysides you have sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the wilderness. 2 Thus says the Lord: You … Cancel {{#items}} {{local_name}} {{/items}} Book. New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.