Jeremiah 3

1 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

"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says the LORD.

2 to lift: look eye your upon bareness and to see: see where? not (to lie down: have sex *QK) 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

"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see. Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

3 and to withhold shower and spring rain not to be and forehead woman to fornicate to be to/for you to refuse be humiliated

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

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

Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'

5 to keep to/for forever: enduring if: surely yes to keep: look at to/for perpetuity behold (to speak: speak *QK) and to make: do [the] bad: evil and be able

"'Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?' Look, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."

6 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

Moreover, the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

7 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 *Qk) treacherous sister her Judah

I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she did not return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

8 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

She saw that for all the causes for which faithless Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, did not fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

9 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

And it came to pass, through her casual prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stone and wood.

10 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

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says the LORD.

11 and to say LORD to(wards) me to justify soul: myself her faithlessness Israel from to act treacherously Judah

The LORD said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

12 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

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says the LORD; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says the LORD. 'I will not keep anger forever.

13 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

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,'" says the LORD.

14 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

"Return, backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

15 and to give: give to/for you to pasture like/as heart my and to pasture [obj] you knowledge and be prudent

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

16 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

It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days," says the LORD, "they shall say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.

17 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

At that time they shall call Jerusalem 'The throne of the LORD;' and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. Neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

18 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

In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.

19 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 *Qk) to/for me and from after me not (to return: turn back *Qk)

"But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'

20 surely to act treacherously woman: wife from neighbor her so to act treacherously in/on/with me house: household Israel utterance LORD

"Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says the LORD.

21 voice upon bareness to hear: hear weeping supplication son: child Israel for to twist [obj] way: conduct their to forget [obj] LORD God their

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.

22 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

"Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding." "Look, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God.

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

Truly the hills are a delusion, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

24 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

But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

25 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

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."