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Jeremiah 3 
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They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become
another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But
thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.
2
Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see where hast thou not
been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness and thou
hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
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Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter
rain yet thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide
of my youth?
5
Will he retain [his anger] for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold,
thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.
6
Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou
seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and
under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
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And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me
but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
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And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had
committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous
Judah her sister feared not but she also went and played the harlot.
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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.
10
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto
me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah.
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And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more
righteous than treacherous Judah.
12
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou
backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah I will not look in anger upon you for I am merciful, saith
Jehovah, I will not keep [anger] for ever.
13
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against
Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye
have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.
14
Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah for I am a husband unto
you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
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and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you
with knowledge and understanding.
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And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the
land, in those days, saith Jehovah, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of
Jehovah neither shall it come to mind neither shall they remember it neither shall they miss
it neither shall it be made any more.
17
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah and all the
nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: neither shall they
walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
18
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and
they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an
inheritance unto your fathers.
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But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a
pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me
My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
20
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye
dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.
21
A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping [and] the
supplications of the children of Israel because they have perverted their way, they have
forgotten Jehovah their God.
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Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold,
we are come unto thee for thou art Jehovah our God.
23
Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult
on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.
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But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our
youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us for we have
sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day and we
have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.
Leitura na versão Bible American Standard - Inglês
