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A Call to Repentance

6 The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what abacksliding Israel has done? She has bgone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.  
7 aAnd I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous bsister Judah saw it.  
8 Then I saw that afor all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had bput her away and given her a certificate of divorce; cyet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.  
9 So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she adefiled the land and committed adultery with bstones and trees.  
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me awith her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.  
11 Then the Lord said to me, a“Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.  
12 Go and proclaim these words toward athe north, and say:
‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
For I am bmerciful,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not remain angry forever. 
13 aOnly acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have bscattered your charms
To calien deities dunder every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 3:8

I saw that, though (whereas) it was for this very reason (namely), because backsliding (apostate) Israel had committed adultery I had put her away (II Kings 17:6, II Kings 17:18), and given her a bill of divorce, yet Judah, etc. (Ezekiel 23:11, etc.).

bill of divorce—literally, "a writing of cuttings off." The plural implies the completeness of the severance. The use of this metaphor here, as in the former discourse (Jeremiah 3:1), implies a close connection between the discourses. The epithets are characteristic; Israel "apostate" (as the Hebrew for "backsliding" is better rendered); Judah, not as yet utterly apostate, but treacherous or faithless.

also—herself also, like Israel.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 3:8:

Jeremiah 3:9
Jeremiah 3:18
Luke 15:13

 

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