Lexicon :: Strong's H7227 - raḇ

That is to say, “If a man divorces his wife

And she goes [away] from him

And becomes another man’s [wife],

Will he return to her again? [Of course not!]

Will not that land [where such a thing happened] be completely desecrated?

But you [rebelled against Me and you] are a prostitute with many lovers;

Yet you turn to Me.” says the LORD.

“What right has My beloved [to be] in My house

When she has done many vile things and acted treacherously [over and over again]?

Can vows and the meat of your sacrifices remove your wickedness from you and cancel the consequences of your sin,

So that you can [escape your judgment and] rejoice?”

“Many shepherds (invaders) have destroyed My vineyard (Judah),

They have trampled My field underfoot;

They have made My pleasant field

A desolate wilderness.

“Behold (listen carefully), I will send for many fishermen,” says the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.

For I have heard the whispering and defaming words of many,

“Terror on every side!

Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”

All my familiar and trusted friends,

[Those who are] watching for my fall, say,

“Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will overcome him,

And take our revenge on him.”

“Many nations will pass by this city; and each man will say to another, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this great city?’

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken as exiles to Babylon.

Now in the [fn]seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family [of David] and one of the princes of the king, came [at the instigation of the Ammonites] with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in Mizpah. As they were eating a meal together there in Mizpah,

“Behold, a people is coming from the north,

And a great nation and many kings

Will be stirring from the remote parts of the earth.

[O Babylon] you who live by many waters,

Rich in treasures,

Your end has come,

And the line measuring your life is cut.

For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon and make her a ruin,

And He will still her great voice [that hums with city life].

And the waves [of her conquerors] roar like great waters,

The noise of their voices is raised up [like the marching of an army].

Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Then the captain of the guard took [as prisoners] Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three doorkeepers.