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Jeremiah 3 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:3 - So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:4 - Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:5 - Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

Faithless Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:7 - And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:10 - But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

God Invites Repentance

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 - And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:12 - Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 - Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 - Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:15 - And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:20 - Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:21 - A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:22 - Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 - Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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Jeremiah Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

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