Jeremiah 3

1 “Saying, Behold, one sends his wife away, And she has gone from him, And she has been to another man, Does he return to her again? Is that land not greatly defiled? And you have committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn to Me again,” A declaration of YHWH.

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 your eyes to the high places, and see, Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them on the ways, As an Arab in a wilderness, And you defile the land, By your fornications, and by your 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 And showers are withheld, and there has been no spring rain. You have the forehead of a whorish woman, You have 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 Have you not from now on called to Me, My Father, You [are] the leader of my youth?

not from now (to call: call to *Q(K)*) to/for me father my tame youth my you(m. s.)

5 Does He keep for all time? Watch forever? Behold, you have spoken these things, And you do evil, and prevail.”

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 And YHWH says to me, in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She is going on every high mountain, and to the place of every green tree, and commits fornication there.

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 say, after her doing all these, Return to Me, and she has not returned, and her treacherous sister Judah sees 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 see that for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery, I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce to her; and her treacherous sister Judah has not feared, and goes and commits fornication—she also.

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 has come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she commits fornication with stone and with wood.

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 even in all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned back to Me with all her heart, but with falsehood,” a declaration of YHWH.

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 YHWH says to me: “Backsliding Israel has justified herself, More 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 you have proclaimed these words toward the north, and have said, Return, O backsliding Israel,” A declaration of YHWH! “I do not cause My anger to fall on you, for I [am] kind,” A declaration of YHWH, “I do not watch for all time.

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, know your iniquity, For you have transgressed against your God YHWH, And you scatter your ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And you have not listened to My voice,” A declaration of YHWH.

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,” A declaration of YHWH. “For I have ruled over you, And taken you—one from a city, and two from a family, And have brought 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 have given shepherds to you According to My own heart, And they have fed 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 has come to pass, when you are multiplied, And have been fruitful in the land, In those days,” A declaration of YHWH, “They no longer say, The Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, Nor does it go up on the heart, Nor do they remember concerning it, Nor do they inspect, nor is it made again.

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 cry to Jerusalem, O throne of YHWH, And all the nations have been gathered to her, For the Name of YHWH, to Jerusalem, Nor do they go after the stubbornness of their evil heart 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 In those days the house of Judah Goes to the house of Israel, And they come together from the land of the south, To the land that I caused your fathers to inherit.

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 And I have said, How do I put you among the sons, And give a desirable land to you, A beautiful inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, You call Me—My Father, And you do not turn back from after 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 a woman has deceived her friend, So you have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” A declaration of YHWH.

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 on high places—weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made their way perverse, They have forgotten their God YHWH.

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, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease.” “Behold us, we have come to You, For You [are] our God YHWH.

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 Surely in vain—from the heights, The multitude of mountains—Surely the salvation of Israel [is] in our God YHWH.

surely to/for deception from hill crowd mountain: mount surely in/on/with LORD God our deliverance: salvation Israel

24 And the shameful thing has devoured The labor of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, 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 We have lain down in our shame, and our confusion covers us, For we have sinned against our God YHWH, We, and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, Nor have we listened to the voice of our God YHWH!”

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