Jeremiah 3:9 Parallel Translations

Because she wasn't concerned about acting like a prostitute, she polluted the land and committed adultery with standing stones and wood pillars.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

DBY:

And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

and it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks;

WBS:

And it came to pass through the lightness of her lewdness, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

WEB:

It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

YLT:

And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.

Jeremiah 3:9 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 57:6 "Among the smooth stones of the ravine Is your portion, they are your lot; Even to them you have poured out a drink offering, You have made a grain offering. Shall I relent concerning these things?

Jeremiah 2:7 "I brought you into the fruitful land To eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, And My inheritance you made an abomination.

Jeremiah 2:27 Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' And to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to Me, And not their face; But in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise and save us.'

Jeremiah 3:2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness.

Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion-- their idol is wood! (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:9 And it came to pass through the {l} lightness of her harlotry, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with trees.
(l) The Hebrew word may either signify lightness and wantonness, or noise and brute.

MHC:

3:6-11 If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dreadful to be proved more criminal than those who have actually perished in their sins; yet it will be small comfort in everlasting punishment, for them to know that others were viler than they.

CONC:

Adultery Behaviour Committed Committeth Committing Defiled Fornication Giving Harlotry Herself Immorality Lewdness Lightness Loose Mattered Pass Polluted Prostitution Stocks Stone Stones Tree Trees Unclean Untrue Vileness Whoredom Wood

Adultery Behaviour Committed Committeth Committing Defiled Fornication Harlotry Immorality Israel's Lightness Little Polluted Prostitution Stocks Stone Stones Tree Trees Unclean Untrue Whoredom Wood

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