They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. 1 Deu 24:1-4Ezk 16:26Deu 4:29-31Ezk 16:28-29Ezk 23:4-49Hos 14:1-4Hos 2:5-7Jer 2:20 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. Ezk 16:24-25Ezk 8:4-6Gen 38:14Jer 2:20Jer 2:7Deu 12:2Jer 3:11Ki 11:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. Lev 26:19Jer 5:24Amo 4:7Deu 28:23Isa 5:6Jer 14:22Jer 14:4Hag 1:11 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? Jer 2:2Jer 3:19Jer 31:9Hos 2:15Jer 2:27Jer 31:18-20Pro 2:17Psa 71:17 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. Ezk 22:6Isa 57:16Jer 3:12Mic 2:1Mic 7:3Isa 64:9Psa 103:8-9Psa 77:7-9
¶ The LORD said also 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. 1Ki 14:232Ki 17:7-17Ezk 16:24-25Ezk 16:31Ezk 20:28Ezk 23:11Isa 57:7Jer 17:2 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. Ezk 16:462Ch 30:6-122Ki 17:13-14Ezk 23:2-4Hos 14:1Hos 6:1-4Jer 3:8-11 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. Deu 24:12Ki 18:9-11Hos 2:2-3Hos 3:4Hos 4:15-17Isa 50:12Ki 17:6-19Deu 24:3 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 2 Jer 2:27Isa 57:6Jer 3:2Hab 2:19Jer 10:8Jer 2:7Ezk 16:17Ezk 23:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. 3 Hos 7:14Jer 12:22Ch 34:33Isa 10:6Psa 18:44Psa 66:3Psa 78:36-37 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Ezk 16:51-52Ezk 23:11Hos 11:7Ezk 16:47Hos 4:16Jer 3:22Jer 3:8
¶ Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. Ezk 33:11Psa 86:15Deu 4:29-31Hos 14:1-3Jer 3:22Mic 7:18-20Jer 3:18Jer 31:20 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. Deu 12:2Deu 30:1-3Jer 2:25Jer 3:25Jer 3:61Jn 1:8-10Jer 14:20Jer 2:20 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: Hos 2:19-20Jer 2:19Jer 31:32Isa 54:5Ezk 34:11-14Jer 31:8-10Zec 13:7-9Isa 10:22 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jer 23:4Act 20:28Eph 4:11-12Ezk 34:23Jhn 21:15-17Isa 30:20-21Pro 10:211Co 3:1-2 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. 4 5 Amo 9:14-15Ezk 37:26Isa 65:17Hos 1:10-11Isa 66:1-2Zec 8:4-5Ezk 36:8-12Heb 10:19-21 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 6 Ezk 43:7Jer 17:12Mic 4:1-5Zec 2:11Jer 11:8Zec 8:20-23Isa 2:2-4Isa 49:18-23 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 have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. 7 8 Jer 31:8Amo 9:15Hos 1:11Jer 23:8Jer 50:4Jer 16:15Jer 3:12Zec 10:6 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me. 9 11 10 Jer 3:4Rom 8:15-17Jer 31:9Isa 63:161Jn 3:1-3Jer 32:39-40Mat 6:8-92Co 6:17-18
¶ Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. 12 Isa 48:8Jer 5:11Ezk 16:15-52Hos 3:1Hos 5:7Hos 6:7Jer 3:1-2Jer 3:8-10 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. 2Co 7:10Jer 2:32Jer 3:2Jer 31:9Isa 15:2Isa 17:10Ezk 23:35Ezk 7:16 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. Hos 14:1Hos 14:4Zec 13:9Hos 6:1-2Jer 30:17Hos 13:4Hos 3:5Jer 31:18 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. Psa 121:1-2Psa 3:8Isa 12:2Ezk 20:28Hos 1:7Jhn 4:22Isa 43:11Isa 44:9 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. Hos 9:10Ezk 16:61Ezk 16:63Hos 10:6Hos 2:8Jer 11:13 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God. Jer 22:21Ezk 7:18Jer 2:26Lam 5:16Pro 5:13Dan 9:6-10Deu 31:17-18Isa 50:11