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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man divorces his wife</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">and she leaves him and marries another man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">should he return to her again?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">Would not the land be completely defiled?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">would you now return to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look up to the barren heights and see.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">Is there any place where you have not been ravished?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">sat like a nomad in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">You have defiled the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">with your prostitution and wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore the showers have been withheld,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">and no spring rains have fallen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">you refuse to blush with shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Have you not just called to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="content">&#8216;My Father, my friend from my youth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">will you always be angry?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">Will your wrath continue forever?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">This is how you talk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">but you do all the evil you can.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Unfaithful Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">During the reign of King Josiah, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because Israel&#8217;s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.3.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Go, proclaim this message toward the north:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Return, faithless Israel,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8216;I will frown on you no longer,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">for I am faithful,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8216;I will not be angry forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Only acknowledge your guilt&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">you have rebelled against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">you have scattered your favors to foreign gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">under every spreading tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">and have not obeyed me,&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Return, faithless people,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;for I am your husband. I will choose you&#8212;one from a town and two from a clan&#8212;and bring you to Zion. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;people will no longer say, &#8216;The ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.3.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I myself said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How gladly would I treat you like my children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">and give you a pleasant land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">I thought you would call me &#8216;Father&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">and not turn away from following me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">A cry is heard on the barren heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">because they have perverted their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">and have forgotten the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Return, faithless people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">I will cure you of backsliding.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we will come to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">for you are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">and mountains is a deception;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">surely in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">is the salvation of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">From our youth shameful gods have consumed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">the fruits of our ancestors&#8217; labor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">their flocks and herds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">their sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let us lie down in our shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">and let our disgrace cover us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">We have sinned against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">both we and our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">from our youth till this day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">we have not obeyed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"></span></div>
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