1"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 24:1, Deuteronomy 24:4, Deuteronomy 24:1, Deuteronomy 24:4, Ezekiel 16:26

2"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

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Jeremiah 2:20, Genesis 38:14, Ezekiel 16:24, Ezekiel 16:25, Jeremiah 2:7

3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

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Leviticus 26:19, Leviticus 26:19, Jeremiah 14:4, Jeremiah 14:4, Jeremiah 14:22

4Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'

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Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 3:19, Jeremiah 3:19, Proverbs 2:17

5"'Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."

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Isaiah 57:16, Micah 7:3, Jeremiah 3:12, Micah 2:1, Ezekiel 22:6

6Moreover, the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

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Ezekiel 16:31, Ezekiel 16:24, Ezekiel 16:25, 2 Kings 17:7, 2 Kings 17:17

7I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she did not return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

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Ezekiel 16:46, Ezekiel 16:46, Ezekiel 23:2, Ezekiel 23:4, Hosea 6:1

8I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, did not fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

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Deuteronomy 24:1, Deuteronomy 24:1, Hosea 4:15, Hosea 4:17, 2 Kings 18:9

9It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

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Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 3:2, Isaiah 57:6, Jeremiah 3:2

10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says the Lord.

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Hosea 7:14, Hosea 7:14, Jeremiah 12:2, Jeremiah 12:2, Isaiah 10:6

11The Lord said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

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Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 16:52, Ezekiel 23:11, Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 16:52

12Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says the Lord; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says the Lord. 'I will not keep anger forever.

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Ezekiel 33:11, Psalms 86:15, Ezekiel 33:11, Psalms 86:15, Deuteronomy 4:29

13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,'" says the Lord.

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Jeremiah 2:25, Jeremiah 3:25, Jeremiah 3:6, Deuteronomy 30:1, Deuteronomy 30:3

14"Return, backsliding children," says the Lord; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

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Hosea 2:19, Hosea 2:20, Hosea 2:19, Hosea 2:20, Jeremiah 2:19

15I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

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Jeremiah 23:4, Jeremiah 23:4, Acts 20:28, Acts 20:28, Ephesians 4:11

16It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days," says 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 miss it; neither shall it be made any more.

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Isaiah 65:17, Ezekiel 37:26, Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15, Isaiah 65:17

17At that time they shall call Jerusalem 'The throne of the Lord;' and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. Neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

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Ezekiel 43:7, Ezekiel 43:7, Micah 4:1, Micah 4:5, Jeremiah 17:12

18In 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 gave for an inheritance to your fathers.

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Jeremiah 31:8, Jeremiah 31:8, Jeremiah 23:8, Amos 9:15, Jeremiah 50:4

19"But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'

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Jeremiah 3:4, Jeremiah 3:4, Jeremiah 31:9, Jeremiah 31:9, Isaiah 63:16

20"Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says the Lord.

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Isaiah 48:8, Isaiah 48:8, Jeremiah 5:11, Jeremiah 5:11, Hosea 5:7

21A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God.

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Jeremiah 31:9, Isaiah 17:10, Jeremiah 3:2, Jeremiah 2:32, Isaiah 15:2

22"Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding." "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the Lord our God.

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Hosea 14:1, Hosea 14:1, Hosea 14:4, Hosea 14:4, Zechariah 13:9

23Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the Lord our God.

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Psalms 121:1, Psalms 121:2, Psalms 121:1, Psalms 121:2, Psalms 3:8

24But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

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Hosea 9:10, Hosea 9:10, Hosea 2:8, Ezekiel 16:61, Ezekiel 16:63

25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God."

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Jeremiah 22:21, Jeremiah 22:21, Jeremiah 2:26, Jeremiah 2:26, Jeremiah 2:17