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Jeremiah 3:9

World English Bible

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

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Jeremiah 3:9 in other translations

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.

Jeremiah 3:9 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 3:9 in context

  1. 7I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
  2. 8I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
  3. 9Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.
  4. 10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
  5. 11Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.