Jeremiah 3:9 “Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and com…”

Jeremiah 3:9

Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

World English Bible

Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.

American Standard Version

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Geneva Bible 1599

So that for the lightnesse of her whoredome shee hath euen defiled the lande: for shee hath committed fornication with stones and stockes.

Darby Translation

And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Young's Literal Translation

And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.

Bible in Basic English

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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Cross references

“lightness”

Ezekiel 23:10

Ezekiel 23:10 · BSB

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.

“she defiled”

Jeremiah 3:2 Jeremiah 2:7

Jeremiah 3:2 · BSB

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your…

Jeremiah 2:7 · BSB

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance detestable.

“committed”

Jeremiah 2:27 Isaiah 57:6 Jeremiah 10:8 Habakkuk 2:19 Ezekiel 16:17 Hosea 4:12

Jeremiah 2:27 · BSB

say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’

Isaiah 57:6 · BSB

Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?

Jeremiah 10:8 · BSB

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Habakkuk 2:19 · BSB

Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”

Ezekiel 16:17 · BSB

You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

Hosea 4:12 · BSB

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.

10Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

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