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forget her ornaments,
or
a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
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Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy
ways.
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Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found
it by secret search, but upon all these.
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Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger
shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
36
Why
gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast
ashamed of Assyria.
37
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the
L
ORD
hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
CHAPTER 3
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 L
ORD
.
2
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.
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.
4
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou
art the guide of my youth?
5
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.
6
The L
ORD
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.
7
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.
8
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.
9
And it came to pass
through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with
stones and with stocks.
10
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me
with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the L
ORD
.
11
And the L
ORD
said unto me, The backsliding
Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith
the L
ORD
;
and
I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I
am
merciful, saith the L
ORD
,
and
I will not keep
anger
for ever.
13
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed
against the L
ORD
thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and
ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the L
ORD
.
14
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the L
ORD
; 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:
15
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge
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