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    Jeremiah · 25 verses

    Jeremiah 3

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    Israel is judged more righteous than Judah, which is a remarkably low bar: Israel has played the harlot, and Judah has seen the result and followed suit without returning with all her heart.

    The sisters and the rainless landvv. 1–11

    The LORD begins with the legal oddity of a divorced wife returning to her first husband, then turns the question upon Israel: after many lovers, would she return to Him? Israel has gone up every high hill and under every green tree; Judah saw her sister’s punishment, yet had no fear and did the same. Thus the verdict lands with a peculiar tilt: the faithless sister is more righteous than the unfaithful one. The land itself goes dry while Judah keeps the brazen look of a prostitute, and her talk of the LORD as Father and friend sits beside her continued evil.

    A return with an unexpectedly small arithmeticvv. 12–20

    The LORD sends a message northward to faithless Israel: acknowledge the guilt, return, and be gathered. The gathering is not described in grand, sweeping numbers but as one from a city and two from a family, brought to Zion, where shepherds will feed the returned with knowledge and understanding. Then comes the chapter’s splendidly strange future: Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, nations will gather there, Judah and Israel will walk together, and the ark will no longer be remembered, missed, discussed, or remade. The promised inheritance is beautiful; the household has still betrayed its Father.

    The voice on the heightsvv. 21–25

    On the barren heights, Israel’s children appear not in triumph but weeping and begging for mercy. The LORD answers with healing for their faithlessness, and they answer together: they will come, confess that they and their fathers have sinned, and lie down beneath their shame. The hills and mountains, once associated with deception and commotion, are stripped of their claim; salvation belongs to the LORD their God.

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    1. Jer 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.

    2. Jer 3:2“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 prostitution and wickedness.

    3. Jer 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

    4. Jer 3:4Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.

    5. Jer 3:5Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

    6. Jer 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

    7. Jer 3:7I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

    8. Jer 3:8She 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.

    9. Jer 3:9Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

    10. Jer 3:10Yet 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.

    11. Jer 3:11And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

    12. Jer 3:12Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.

    13. Jer 3:13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

    14. Jer 3:14“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

    15. Jer 3:15Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

    16. Jer 3:16“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

    17. Jer 3:17At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

    18. Jer 3:18In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.

    19. Jer 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.

    20. Jer 3:20But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

    21. Jer 3:21A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

    22. Jer 3:22“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

    23. Jer 3:23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

    24. Jer 3:24From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

    25. Jer 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

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    • 15Jeremiah 23:4I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.
    • 15Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
    • 15Ephesians 4:11–12And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
    • 15Ezekiel 34:23I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
    • 15Isaiah 30:20–21The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
    • 15Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
    • 151 Corinthians 3:1–2Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
    • 15Luke 12:42And the Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their portion at the proper time?
    • 15John 10:1–5“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
    • 1Deuteronomy 24:1–4If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
    • 12Ezekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
    • 12Psalms 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
    • 151 Peter 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
    • 15Micah 5:4–5He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.
    • 3Leviticus 26:19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
    • 14Hosea 2:19–20So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

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