Jeremiah 3
1 “[Moses wrote that] if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man, her first husband certainly must not [RHQ] take her back again [to be his wife], because that would certainly [RHQ] cause the whole nation to become unacceptable to me. But you have more [idols than] prostitutes have men whom they have slept with! So, [why should I accept you if] you return to me?” [RHQ] says Yahweh.
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 barren hilltops. On every hilltop there are [RHQ] [idols that you have worshiped]. [It is as though] they are all lovers with whom you have had sex. [It is as though] you have sat along the roadsides like an Arab, waiting [to attack and steal things from] those who pass by. Because of worshiping idols and all the other wicked things that you have done, you have caused the [entire] land to become unacceptable to me.
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 is why I have not sent you any rain at the times of the year when you needed it. But you are like prostitutes [MET] who are not at all ashamed [for what they have done].
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 Now each of you says to me, ‘You are my father! You have loved me ever since I was young!
not from now (to call: call to *Q(K)*) to/for me father my tame youth my you(m. s.)
5 So surely you will not [RHQ] be angry with me forever!’ But you will not quit sinning!”
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 [One day] when Josiah was the king of Judah, Yahweh said to me, “Have you seen what the people of Israel have done? They have turned away from me, like a woman who has abandoned her husband and sleeps with other men. They have gone up on every hilltop and under every big tree and worshiped idols there [MET].
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 thought that they would return to me, so I said to them, ‘Come back to me!’ But they refused. So I sent them away [to other countries, like a man] writes a note saying that he is divorcing his wife and then sends his wife away because she has committed adultery [MET].
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 The people of Judah saw what I did to them. But they are just like the people of Israel. They are not afraid [of what I will do to them]. They also [have turned away from me and are worshiping idols like] women who abandon their husbands and go to other men [MET].
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 They thought that worshiping idols did not matter to me, so they have made the [entire] land unacceptable to me by worshiping idols of wood and stone.
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 The people of Judah have pretended to return to me, but they have not really done that. [This is true because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
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 Then Yahweh said to me, “The people of Israel have turned away from me, but what the people of Judah have done is worse.
and to say LORD to(wards) me to justify soul: myself her faithlessness Israel from to act treacherously Judah
12 So go and tell this to the people of Israel: ‘Yahweh says this to you Israeli people who have turned away from him: I am merciful. I will not continue to be angry with you forever. So return to me.
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 But you must admit/say that you are guilty, and that you have rebelled against me, Yahweh, your God, that you have worshiped idols under big trees everywhere, and you have not obeyed me. You have turned away from me.
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 But you belong to me. So I will take you, one from [each] city and two from [each] clan, and bring you [back] to Jerusalem [from the countries to which you were exiled].
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 [If you do that], I will appoint for you leaders with whom I am pleased, leaders who will guide you [well] because they will know and understand [what pleases me].
and to give: give to/for you to pasture like/as heart my and to pasture [obj] you knowledge and be prudent
16 And when you become very numerous [DOU] in your land, you will not need to talk about the Sacred Chest that contained the Ten Commandments. You will not think about it, and you will not want 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 At that time people will say, “Jerusalem is [the place where] Yahweh’s throne is.” [People from] all nations will come there to worship me. And they will no longer stubbornly do the evil things that they desire.
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 you people [MTY] of Israel and the people of Judah will return from [being (exiled/forced to live) in] lands to the northeast. You will return to the land that I gave to your ancestors to belong to them [forever].
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 You people of Israel, I wanted to accept you to be my children. I wanted to give you [this] delightful land. It is a land more desirable/pleasant than the land of any other nation! I wanted you to call me ‘father’, and I wanted you to never turn away from 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 you have abandoned me like wives who have abandoned their husbands.’” [That is what] Yahweh said, and [I told it] to the people of Israel.
surely to act treacherously woman: wife from neighbor her so to act treacherously in/on/with me house: household Israel utterance LORD
21 People will hear a noise on the barren hilltops. It will be the noise made by people weeping and pleading [for God to be merciful to them]. They will be admitting/saying that they have forgotten Yahweh their God, and that they turned away from behaving as God wanted them to.
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 Yahweh will say to them, “You Israeli people, come back to me! [If you do that], I will cause you to never turn away from me again.” [The people will reply], “We are returning to you, because you are Yahweh, 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 We did not get any help from [the idols that we worshiped on] the hilltops; we did not get any help from making all that noise up there.
surely to/for deception from hill crowd mountain: mount surely in/on/with LORD God our deliverance: salvation Israel
24 From the time when we were young, the shameful [god Baal] has taken away [from us] everything that our ancestors worked hard to acquire. He has taken away their flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle], 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 So, now we should lie down feeling very ashamed [DOU], because we and our ancestors have sinned against Yahweh our God, and we have never obeyed him.”
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
