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Jeremiah Chapter 3

Jeremiah
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Jeremiah

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Jeremiah continues his lament for Jerusalem, describing the city's destruction and the people's sorrow. He calls the people to repentance and warns that their rebellion will bring disaster. The chapter emphasizes God's judgment on those who turn away from Him.

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(1) They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 24:1Deuteronomy 24:2Deuteronomy 24:3Deuteronomy 24:4Jeremiah 3:9Jeremiah 2:7Leviticus 18:24Leviticus 18:25Leviticus 18:26Leviticus 18:27Leviticus 18:28Isaiah 24:5

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7Genesis 3:19

(2) Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
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Jeremiah 2:23Ezekiel 8:4Ezekiel 8:5Ezekiel 8:6Luke 16:23Jeremiah 2:20Deuteronomy 12:2I Kings 11:3II Kings 23:13Ezekiel 16:16Ezekiel 16:24Ezekiel 16:25

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Jeremiah 44:9Genesis 21:16Numbers 14:33Ezekiel 20:13I Kings 22:43

(3) Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
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Jeremiah 9:12Jeremiah 14:4Jeremiah 14:22Leviticus 26:19Deuteronomy 28:23Isaiah 5:6Joel 1:16Joel 1:17Joel 1:18Joel 1:19Joel 1:20Amos 4:7

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Joel 2:23Zechariah 10:1Deuteronomy 11:14Amos 4:7Deuteronomy 32:2Job 29:23

(4) Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
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Jeremiah 3:19Jeremiah 31:9Jeremiah 31:18Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 31:20Hosea 14:1Hosea 14:2Hosea 14:3Jeremiah 2:27Jeremiah 2:2Psalms 48:14Psalms 71:5

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II Kings 8:12Habakkuk 1:2Exodus 15:26

(5) Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
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Jeremiah 3:12Psalms 77:7Psalms 77:8Psalms 77:9Psalms 85:5Psalms 103:8Psalms 103:9Isaiah 57:16Isaiah 64:9Ezekiel 22:6Micah 2:1Micah 7:3

(6) The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
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Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 3:11Jeremiah 3:12Jeremiah 3:13Jeremiah 3:14Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 7:24II Kings 17:7II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 17:11

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Ezekiel 17:24Isaiah 41:19Joel 1:12Genesis 2:9Jeremiah 2:20Ezekiel 20:47

(7) And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
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II Kings 17:13II Kings 17:14II Chronicles 30:6II Chronicles 30:7II Chronicles 30:8II Chronicles 30:9II Chronicles 30:10II Chronicles 30:11II Chronicles 30:12Hosea 6:1Hosea 6:2Hosea 6:3

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Ezekiel 33:11

(8) And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
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Jeremiah 3:1II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:7II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 17:11II Kings 17:12II Kings 17:13II Kings 17:14II Kings 17:15II Kings 17:16

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Ezekiel 23:37Jeremiah 33:8Jeremiah 3:6Ezekiel 16:28Jeremiah 29:23

(9) And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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Ezekiel 23:10Jeremiah 3:2Jeremiah 2:7Jeremiah 2:27Jeremiah 10:8Isaiah 57:6Ezekiel 16:17Hosea 4:12Habakkuk 2:19

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10Ezekiel 23:37I Kings 5:17Jeremiah 29:23

(10) And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
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II Chronicles 34:33II Chronicles 35:1II Chronicles 35:2II Chronicles 35:3II Chronicles 35:4II Chronicles 35:5II Chronicles 35:6II Chronicles 35:7II Chronicles 35:8II Chronicles 35:9II Chronicles 35:10II Chronicles 35:11

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Matthew 9:22

(11) And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
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Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 3:22Hosea 4:16Hosea 11:7Ezekiel 16:47Ezekiel 16:51Ezekiel 16:52Ezekiel 23:11

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Galatians 2:16

(12) Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
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Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 23:8Jeremiah 31:8II Kings 15:29II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:23II Kings 18:1Jeremiah 3:1Jeremiah 3:7Jeremiah 3:22Jeremiah 4:1Isaiah 44:22

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4II Chronicles 6:38

(13) Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 3:25Jeremiah 31:18Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 31:20Leviticus 26:40Leviticus 26:41Leviticus 26:42Deuteronomy 30:1Deuteronomy 30:2Deuteronomy 30:3Job 33:27Job 33:28

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Ezekiel 17:24Isaiah 41:19Joel 1:12Genesis 2:9Ezekiel 20:47Matthew 12:33

(14) Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
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Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 3:1Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 2:2Jeremiah 31:32Isaiah 54:5Hosea 2:19Hosea 2:20Jeremiah 23:3Jeremiah 31:8Jeremiah 31:9Jeremiah 31:10

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Numbers 26:58Numbers 3:27Ezekiel 33:11Numbers 26:12Numbers 26:15Numbers 26:20

(15) And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
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Jeremiah 23:4I Samuel 13:14Isaiah 30:20Isaiah 30:21Ezekiel 34:23Ezekiel 37:24Micah 5:4Micah 5:5John 10:1John 10:2John 10:3John 10:4

(16) And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith 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 visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
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Jeremiah 30:19Jeremiah 31:8Jeremiah 31:27Isaiah 60:22Isaiah 61:4Ezekiel 36:8Ezekiel 36:9Ezekiel 36:10Ezekiel 36:11Ezekiel 36:12Ezekiel 37:26Hosea 1:10

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Leviticus 26:42Joshua 3:6I Samuel 4:4Exodus 40:20Joshua 6:6Joshua 8:33

(17) At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
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Jeremiah 14:21Jeremiah 17:12Jeremiah 31:23Psalms 87:3Isaiah 6:1Isaiah 66:1Ezekiel 1:26Ezekiel 43:7Galatians 4:26Isaiah 2:2Isaiah 2:3Isaiah 2:4

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Jeremiah 13:10Revelation 4:6

(18) 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 have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
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Jeremiah 30:3Jeremiah 50:4Jeremiah 50:20Isaiah 11:11Isaiah 11:12Isaiah 11:13Ezekiel 37:16Ezekiel 37:17Ezekiel 37:18Ezekiel 37:19Ezekiel 37:20Ezekiel 37:21

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Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Numbers 26:54Joshua 19:9

(19) But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
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Jeremiah 5:7Hosea 11:8Jeremiah 3:4Jeremiah 31:9Jeremiah 31:20John 1:11John 1:12John 1:13II Corinthians 6:17II Corinthians 6:18Galatians 3:26Galatians 4:5

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Zechariah 1:3Psalms 16:6Ezekiel 33:11

(20) Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
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Hosea 3:1Jeremiah 3:1Jeremiah 3:2Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 3:9Jeremiah 3:10Jeremiah 5:11Isaiah 48:8Ezekiel 16:15Ezekiel 16:16Ezekiel 16:17Ezekiel 16:18

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Isaiah 33:1Isaiah 24:16Romans 7:2Jeremiah 44:25Judges 9:23Jeremiah 5:11

(21) A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
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Jeremiah 30:15Jeremiah 30:16Jeremiah 30:17Jeremiah 31:9Jeremiah 31:18Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 31:20Jeremiah 50:4Jeremiah 50:5Isaiah 15:2Ezekiel 7:16Zechariah 12:10

(22) Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
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Hosea 6:1Hosea 14:1Hosea 14:4Jeremiah 31:18Isaiah 27:8Song of Solomon 1:4Hosea 3:5Hosea 6:2Hosea 13:4Hosea 14:8Zechariah 13:9

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Song of Solomon 6:13Isaiah 19:22Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(23) Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
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Jeremiah 3:6Jeremiah 10:14Jeremiah 10:15Jeremiah 10:16Psalms 121:1Psalms 121:2Isaiah 44:9Isaiah 45:20Isaiah 46:7Isaiah 46:8Ezekiel 20:28Jonah 2:8

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Psalms 62:1Isaiah 12:2Isaiah 46:13Habakkuk 3:13II Corinthians 1:6II Corinthians 6:2

(24) For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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Jeremiah 11:13Ezekiel 16:61Ezekiel 16:63Hosea 2:8Hosea 9:10Hosea 10:6

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Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Exodus 10:9Jeremiah 5:17Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(25) We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
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Jeremiah 2:26Jeremiah 6:26Ezra 9:6Ezra 9:7Ezra 9:8Ezra 9:9Ezra 9:10Ezra 9:11Ezra 9:12Ezra 9:13Ezra 9:14Ezra 9:15

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Isaiah 54:4Leviticus 18:23

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