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Jeremiah 3

. . . saying, if any man divorce his wife

and she leaves him

if she belongs to another man

can she come back to him

Would not a woman like that

be wholly polluted?

And you, who have wantoned with many a lover

you would come back to me!-

says the Eternal.

Look up at the bare heights, see!

Where have not men lain with you?

You sat awaiting lovers by the road-side,

like a nomad in the desert

you have polluted the lan

with your harlotry and vice;

your host of lovers

has been a snare to you

and yet you were as brazen as a harlot,

you would not blush for it.

And now you begin to call me

‘Dear bridegroom of my youth’!

‘He will not keep it up,’ you say

‘he will not be angry for ever!’

So you say, but what you do

is vilest of the vile.” 6 [[During the reign of king Josiah, the Eternal said to me, “Have you seen what turncoat Israel has done, going up every height, going under every green tree, and playing the harlot there? 7 I thought, after all that, she would surely turn back to me. But she did not turn back; and although her faithless sister Judah saw plainly that, 8 as Israel had committed adultery, I had divorced her and handed her a bill of divorce, yet Judah her faithless sister was not afraid; she too went and played the harlot. 9 The light-hearted wanton, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees! 10 Yet, for all that, this faithless Judah has not turned back to me with her whole heart, but insincerely.” 11 So the Eternal said to me, “Turncoat Israel has proved herself better than faithless Judah. 12 Go and proclaim this northward; say,

‘Turn again, turncoat Israel, turn to me

the Eternal pleads;

I will not frown on you, for I am merciful,

I will not keep it up against you.

Only acknowledge your guilt, confess

you have rebelled against the Eternal, your own God,

and lavished love on foreign gods under all green trees

and refused to listen to my voice, says the Eternal.’ ”]] 14 [[“Turn back, O turncoat children, says the Eternal, for it is I who am your lord; I will take one or two of you, one from a town here, two from a clan there, and bring you to Sion, 15 where I will give you rulers after my own heart who shall furnish you with knowledge and with sense. 16 In after days, when you become numerous and fruitful in the land, says the Eternal, men shall no longer speak of ‘the ark of the Eternal’s compact’; that shall never enter their minds, they shall not remember it, they shall never miss it, and it shall never be re-made. 17 They shall call Jerusalem then ‘the throne of the Eternal’; and all nations shall gather to it, living no longer by the stubbornness of their evil minds. 18 In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and they shall come out of the north-land together to the land that I gave as a heritage to your fathers.”]]

I thought that I would treat you like a son,

and give you a delightful land

the fairest heritage of any nation.

I thought that you would call me Father,

and never turn away from me.

But as a wife betrays her husband for her lover

so you have betrayed me,

O house of Israel--says the Eternal.

Hark, I hear them on the bare heights,

Israel beseeching and bewailing;

for they have wilfully gone astray,

ignoring the Eternal One, their God.

Turn back, you turncoat children,

and I will heal your hurt.

“Here we come, we come to thee,

for thou art our own God.

These hills are no help,

these orgies on the mountains

Only in the Eternal One, our God,

lies any help for Israel.

Baal-worship has always devoured

the fruit of our fathers’ toil,

their flocks and herds

their sons and daughters.

Let us lie down then in our shame,

let our dishonour cover us;

for we have sinned against our God,

both we and our fathers

from our youth till now,

and never have we listene

to the voice of our own God.”