One Year Chronological Bible Sampler - Flipbook - Page 176
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‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth.
Surely you won’t be angry forever!
Surely you can forget about it!’
So you talk,
but you keep on doing all the evil you can.”
Judah Follows Israel’s Example / Jeremiah 3:6-10
During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what fickle
Israel has done? Like a wife who commits adultery, Israel has worshiped other
gods on every hill and under every green tree. 7I thought, ‘After she has done all
this, she will return to me.’ But she did not return, and her faithless sister Judah
saw this. 8She saw* that I divorced faithless Israel because of her adultery. But that
treacherous sister Judah had no fear, and now she, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution. 9Israel treated it all so lightly—she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has
been polluted. 10But despite all this, her faithless sister Judah has never sincerely
returned to me. She has only pretended to be sorry. I, the LORD, have spoken!”
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Hope for Wayward Israel / Jeremiah 3:11–4:2
Then the LORD said to me, “Even faithless Israel is less guilty than treacherous
Judah! 12 Therefore, go and give this message to Israel.* This is what the LORD
says:
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“O Israel, my faithless people,
come home to me again,
for I am merciful.
I will not be angry with you forever.
Only acknowledge your guilt.
Admit that you rebelled against the LORD your God
and committed adultery against him
by worshiping idols under every green tree.
Confess that you refused to listen to my voice.
I, the LORD, have spoken!
“Return home, you wayward children,”
says the LORD,
“for I am your master.
I will bring you back to the land of Israel*—
one from this town and two from that family—
from wherever you are scattered.
And I will give you shepherds after my own heart,
who will guide you with knowledge and understanding.
“And when your land is once more filled with people,” says the LORD, “you
will no longer wish for ‘the good old days’ when you possessed the Ark of the
LORD’s Covenant. You will not miss those days or even remember them, and
there will be no need to rebuild the Ark. 17In that day Jerusalem will be known as
‘ The Throne of the LORD.’ All nations will come there to honor the LORD. They
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3:8 As in Dead Sea Scrolls, one Greek manuscript, and Syriac version; Masoretic Text reads I saw.
the north.
3:14 Hebrew to Zion.
3:12 Hebrew toward
