< 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? Will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou have played the harlot with many lovers. Yet return again to me, says Jehovah.
to/for to say look! to send: divorce man [obj] woman: wife his and to go: went from with him and to be to/for man another to return: return to(wards) her still not to pollute to pollute [the] land: country/planet [the] he/she/it and you(f. s.) to fornicate neighbor many and to return: return to(wards) me utterance LORD
2 Lift up thine eyes to the bare heights, and see. Where have thou not been lain with? By the ways thou have sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness, and thou have polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
to lift: look eye your upon bareness and to see: see where? not (to lie down: have sex *Q(K)*) upon way: road to dwell to/for them like/as Arab in/on/with wilderness and to pollute land: country/planet in/on/with fornication your and in/on/with distress: harm your
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. Yet thou have a harlot's forehead; thou refused to be ashamed.
and to withhold shower and spring rain not to be and forehead woman to fornicate to be to/for you to refuse be humiliated
4 Will thou not from this time cry to me, My Father, thou are the guide of my youth?
not from now (to call: call to *Q(K)*) to/for me father my tame youth my you(m. s.)
5 Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou have spoken, and have done evil things, and have had thy way.
to keep to/for forever: enduring if: surely yes to keep: look at to/for perpetuity behold (to speak: speak *Q(K)*) and to make: do [the] bad: evil and be able
6 Moreover Jehovah said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have thou seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
and to say LORD to(wards) me in/on/with day Josiah [the] king to see: see which to make: do faithlessness Israel to go: went he/she/it upon all mountain: mount high and to(wards) underneath: under all tree luxuriant and to fornicate there
7 And I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me, but she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
and to say after to make: do she [obj] all these to(wards) me to return: return and not to return: return (and to see: see *Q(k)*) treacherous sister her Judah
8 And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not, but she also went and played the harlot.
and to see: see for upon all because which to commit adultery faithlessness Israel to send: divorce her and to give: give [obj] scroll: document divorce her to(wards) her and not to fear to act treacherously Judah sister her and to go: went and to fornicate also he/she/it
9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
and to be from frivolity fornication her and to pollute [obj] [the] land: country/planet and to commit adultery [obj] [the] stone and [obj] [the] tree
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says Jehovah.
and also in/on/with all this not to return: return to(wards) me treacherous sister her Judah in/on/with all heart her that if: except if: except in/on/with deception utterance LORD
11 And Jehovah said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
and to say LORD to(wards) me to justify soul: myself her faithlessness Israel from to act treacherously Judah
12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, says Jehovah, I will not look in anger upon you, for I am merciful, says Jehovah. I will not keep anger forever.
to go: went and to call: call out [obj] [the] word [the] these north [to] and to say to return: return [emph?] faithlessness Israel utterance LORD not to fall: angry face: angry my in/on/with you for pious I utterance LORD not to keep to/for forever: enduring
13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou have transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and have scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, says Jehovah.
surely to know iniquity: guilt your for in/on/with LORD God your to transgress and to scatter [obj] way: conduct your to/for be a stranger underneath: under all tree luxuriant and in/on/with voice my not to hear: obey utterance LORD
14 Return, O backsliding sons, says Jehovah, for I am a husband to you. And I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
to return: return son: child turning back utterance LORD for I rule: to marry in/on/with you and to take: take [obj] you one from city and two from family and to come (in): bring [obj] you Zion
15 And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
and to give: give to/for you to pasture like/as heart my and to pasture [obj] you knowledge and be prudent
16 And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Jehovah, they shall no more say, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah, nor shall it come to mind. Neither shall they remember it, nor shall they miss it. Neither shall it be made any more.
and to be for to multiply and be fruitful in/on/with land: country/planet in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) utterance LORD not to say still ark covenant LORD and not to ascend: rise upon heart and not to remember in/on/with him and not to reckon: missing and not to make still
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. Neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
in/on/with time [the] he/she/it to call: call by to/for Jerusalem throne LORD and to collect to(wards) her all [the] nation to/for name LORD to/for Jerusalem and not to go: follow still after stubbornness heart their [the] bad: evil
18 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 gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) to go: went house: household Judah upon house: household Israel and to come (in): come together from land: country/planet north upon [the] land: country/planet which to inherit [obj] father your
19 But I said, How I will put thee among the sons, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! And I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
and I to say how? to set: make you in/on/with son: child and to give: give to/for you land: country/planet desire inheritance beauty beauty nation and to say father my (to call: call by *Q(K)*) to/for me and from after me not (to return: turn back *Q(K)*)
20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so ye have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says Jehovah.
surely to act treacherously woman: wife from neighbor her so to act treacherously in/on/with me house: household Israel utterance LORD
21 A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel, because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
voice upon bareness to hear: hear weeping supplication son: child Israel for to twist [obj] way: conduct their to forget [obj] LORD God their
22 Return, ye backsliding sons, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we have come to thee, for thou are Jehovah our God.
to return: return son: child turning back to heal faithlessness your look! we to come to/for you for you(m. s.) LORD God our
23 Truly it is in vain from the heights, the multitude on the mountains. Truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.
surely to/for deception from hill crowd mountain: mount surely in/on/with LORD God our deliverance: salvation Israel
24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
and [the] shame to eat [obj] toil father our from youth our [obj] flock their and [obj] cattle their [obj] son: child their and [obj] daughter their
25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us, for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.
to lie down: lay down in/on/with shame our and to cover us shame our for to/for LORD God our to sin we and father our from youth our and till [the] day: today [the] this and not to hear: obey in/on/with voice LORD God our

< Jeremiah 3 >