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.
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 Look up at the bare hilltops. Is there anywhere that you haven't had sex? You sat at the roadside like someone from the desert waiting for your lovers to pass by. You have made the land unclean with your prostitution and evil.
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 That's why no showers have been sent, and no spring rains have fallen. But you just stare back shamelessly like a prostitute; you refuse to accept you've done anything wrong.
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 Didn't you just tell me, “My father, you've been such a close friend to me since I was little.
not from now (to call: call to *Q(K)*) to/for me father my tame youth my you(m. s.)
5 You won't be angry with me for a long time, will you? You won't go on being like that forever?” This is what you've said, but you keep on sinning as much as you can.
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 During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord told me, Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has prostituted herself on every high hill and under every green tree.
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 I hoped that after she'd done all this she'd come back to me. But she didn't come back, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw what happened.
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 She saw that because of everything unfaithful Israel had done on committing adultery, I sent her away, giving her a certificate of divorce. But her unfaithful sister Judah wasn't afraid and prostituted herself too.
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 Israel didn't care about the immorality, as she made herself and the land unclean, committing adultery by worshiping stones and trees.
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 Despite all this, her unfaithful sister Judah didn't come back to me in sincerity. She only pretended to do so, declares the Lord.
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 The Lord told me, Unfaithful Israel showed that she wasn't as guilty as unfaithful Judah.
and to say LORD to(wards) me to justify soul: myself her faithlessness Israel from to act treacherously Judah
12 Now go and announce this message to the north: Come back, unfaithful Israel, declares the Lord. I won't be angry with you anymore, because I am merciful, declares the Lord. I won't be angry 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 Just admit you did wrong, that you rebelled against the Lord your God. You spread yourself around, committing adultery by worshiping foreign gods under every green tree, refusing to do what I told you, declares the Lord.
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 Come back, unfaithful children, declares the Lord, because I am married to you. I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and 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 I will give you shepherds who are like me who will feed you wisely and with understanding.
and to give: give to/for you to pasture like/as heart my and to pasture [obj] you knowledge and be prudent
16 At that time as you increase in number in the country, declares the Lord, no one will be talking about the Ark of the Lord's Agreement anymore. People won't need to think about it or remember it or wonder what happened to it; and certainly won't need to make a new one.
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 When that time comes Jerusalem will be called the Throne of the Lord, and all the nations will come together in Jerusalem to honor the Lord. They won't be stubborn or wicked anymore.
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 At that time the people of Judah will join with the people of Israel, and they will return from the land of the north to the country I gave to your forefathers to own.
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 I said to myself, I really want you to be my children, and to give you the best country, the most beautiful place of any nation. I hoped you would call me “Father,” and never give up 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 But just like a wife might betray her husband, you have betrayed me, people of Israel, declares the Lord.
surely to act treacherously woman: wife from neighbor her so to act treacherously in/on/with me house: household Israel utterance LORD
21 Voices are crying on bare hilltops—the Israelites weeping and pleading for mercy, because they have gone astray and forgotten the Lord 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 Come back, unfaithful children, and I will heal your unfaithfulness. “We're here! Yes, we're coming back to you, because you are the Lord 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 There's no doubt that pagan worship from the hills is pure lies; the idolatry that comes from the mountains is just noise. Israel's salvation is in the Lord our God alone.
surely to/for deception from hill crowd mountain: mount surely in/on/with LORD God our deliverance: salvation Israel
24 All our lives pagan idolatry has destroyed what our fathers worked so hard for: their flocks and herds, their sons and 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 We should lie down in shame, and have our disgrace bury us. We have sinned against the Lord our God, us and our fathers. From when we were young right up to now we have not obeyed what the Lord our God told us to do.
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