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Jeremiah 3:2-4
Common English Bible
Jeremiah 3:2-4
Common English Bible
2 Look to the well-traveled paths[a] and see!
Where haven’t you committed adultery?
On the roadsides you sit in wait for lovers,
like a nomad in the wilderness.
You have corrupted the land
with your cheap and reckless behavior.
3 That’s why the showers have failed
and the spring rains have ceased.
Still you act like a brazen prostitute[b]
who refuses to blush.
4 At the same time you say to me,
“My father, my friend since youth,
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 3:2 Or bare heights
- Jeremiah 3:3 Or You have a prostitute’s forehead.
Jeremiah 3:2-4
New International Version
Jeremiah 3:2-4
New International Version
2 “Look up to the barren heights(A) and see.
Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside(B) you sat waiting for lovers,
sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land(C)
with your prostitution(D) and wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld,(E)
and no spring rains(F) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen(G) look of a prostitute;
you refuse to blush with shame.(H)
4 Have you not just called to me:
‘My Father,(I) my friend from my youth,(J)
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