Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 3

100 catchwords872 parallels

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Jeremiah 3 . 1 , God’s great mercy in Judah’s vile whoredom; Jeremiah 3 . 6 , Judah is worse than Israel; Jeremiah 3 . 12 , The promises of the gospel to the penitent; Jeremiah 3 . 20 , Israel reproved , and called by God , makes a solemn confession of their sins.

Jeremiah 3:1

"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?" declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:1 · BSB

If a man1 parallel

shall not that5 parallels

but thou hast10 parallels

yet return11 parallels

Reciprocal36 parallels

They say Heb. Saying

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:2 · BSB

Lift3 parallels

unto8 parallels

In the5 parallels

thou hast3 parallels

Reciprocal23 parallels

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 3:3 · BSB

the showers9 parallels

latter rain1 parallel

a whore's8 parallels

thou refusedst5 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:4

Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.

Jeremiah 3:4 · BSB

Wilt thou4 parallels

My father1 parallel

the guide9 parallels

Reciprocal5 parallels

Jeremiah 3:5

Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

Jeremiah 3:5 · BSB

he reserve7 parallels

thou hast spoken4 parallels

Reciprocal3 parallels

Jeremiah 3:6

Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

Jeremiah 3:6 · BSB

backsliding6 parallels

she is7 parallels

played1 parallel

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am 3292 , bc 612

Jeremiah 3:7

I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 3:7 · BSB

Turn thou5 parallels

her treacherous3 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.

Jeremiah 3:8 · BSB

when for9 parallels

and given her2 parallels

feared not3 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:9

Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

Jeremiah 3:9 · BSB

lightness1 parallel

or , fame

she defiled2 parallels

committed6 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:10

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:10 · BSB

Judah6 parallels

feignedly2 parallels

Heb. in falsehood

Reciprocal26 parallels

Jeremiah 3:11

And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

Jeremiah 3:11 · BSB

The backsliding4 parallels

justified4 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:12

Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.

Jeremiah 3:12 · BSB

toward the north7 parallels

Return8 parallels

and I will not5 parallels

for I am11 parallels

I will2 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:13 · BSB

acknowledge9 parallels

and hast scattered7 parallels

under every1 parallel

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Jeremiah 3:14

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 3:14 · BSB

O backsliding1 parallel

for I am married7 parallels

one of a city13 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:15

Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

Jeremiah 3:15 · BSB

And I13 parallels

which shall13 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:16

“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

Jeremiah 3:16 · BSB

when15 parallels

say3 parallels

The ark9 parallels

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to mind Heb. upon the heart

that be done or , it be magnified

Jeremiah 3:17

At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

Jeremiah 3:17 · BSB

the throne9 parallels

and all the nations7 parallels

to the name3 parallels

walk12 parallels

imagination3 parallels

or , stubbornness

Reciprocal12 parallels

Jeremiah 3:18

In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.

Jeremiah 3:18 · BSB

In9 parallels

out4 parallels

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with or , to

given etc. or , caused your fathers to possess

Jeremiah 3:19

Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.

Jeremiah 3:19 · BSB

How2 parallels

put thee10 parallels

pleasant land7 parallels

Heb. land of desire

goodly heritage3 parallels

Heb. heritage of glory , or beauty

Thou shalt7 parallels

shalt not3 parallels

Reciprocal20 parallels

from me Heb. from after me

Jeremiah 3:20

But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:20 · BSB

husband1 parallel

Heb. friend

so have9 parallels

Reciprocal7 parallels

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

Jeremiah 3:21 · BSB

A voice9 parallels

for they have5 parallels

and they have5 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:22

“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 3:22 · BSB

Return3 parallels

we9 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:23

Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 3:23 · BSB

in vain11 parallels

in the Lord14 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:24

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 3:24 · BSB

the whole verse6 parallels

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Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

Jeremiah 3:25 · BSB

lie down9 parallels

for we have sinned6 parallels

we and our7 parallels

and have not4 parallels

Reciprocal23 parallels

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web11 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Jeremiah 3:1 → Deuteronomy 24:1, Jeremiah 3:1 → Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Jeremiah 3:16 → Genesis 1:28
Trajectories
Marriage (Christ and His Bride), Spiritual Adultery (Covenant Faithfulness and Idolatry)
Longitudinal Themes
Marriage and Bride
Chiasms
Shaped Jeremiah 2:1–3:5, Jeremiah 3:1–8, Jeremiah 3:12–4:2, Jeremiah 3:16–17, Jeremiah 3:8–11
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