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Jeremiah 2:20--3:11

2:20

For of old time
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I have broken
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thy yoke
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[and] burst
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thy bands
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and thou saidst
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I will not transgress
<05674> (8799) (8675) <05647> (8799)_;

when upon every high
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hill
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and under every green
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tree
<06086>

thou wanderest
<06808> (8802)_,

playing the harlot
<02181> (8802)_.

{transgress: or, serve}

2:21

Yet I had planted
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thee a noble vine
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wholly a right
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seed
<02233>_:

how then art thou turned
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into the degenerate plant
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of a strange
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vine
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unto me?

2:22

For though thou wash
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thee with nitre
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and take thee much
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soap
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[yet] thine iniquity
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is marked
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before
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me, saith
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the Lord
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GOD
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2:23

How canst thou say
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I am not polluted
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I have not gone
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after
<0310>

Baalim
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see
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thy way
<01870>

in the valley
<01516>_,

know
<03045> (8798)

what thou hast done
<06213> (8804)_:

[thou art] a swift
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dromedary
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traversing
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her ways
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{thou art...: or, O swift dromedary}

2:24

A wild ass
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used
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to the wilderness
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[that] snuffeth up
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the wind
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at her pleasure
<0185> <05315>_;

in her occasion
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who can turn her away
<07725> (8686)_?

all they that seek
<01245> (8764)

her will not weary
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themselves; in her month
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they shall find
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her. {A wild...: or, O wild ass, etc} {used: Heb. taught} {her pleasure: Heb. the desire of her heart} {turn...: or, reverse it?}

2:25

Withhold
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thy foot
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from being unshod
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and thy throat
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from thirst
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but thou saidst
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There is no hope
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no; for I have loved
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strangers
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and after
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them will I go
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{There...: or, Is the case desperate?}

2:26

As the thief
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is ashamed
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when he is found
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so is the house
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of Israel
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ashamed
<03001> (8689)_;

they, their kings
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their princes
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and their priests
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and their prophets
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2:27

Saying
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to a stock
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Thou [art] my father
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and to a stone
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Thou hast brought me forth
<03205> (8804)_:

for they have turned
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[their] back
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unto me, and not [their] face
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but in the time
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of their trouble
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they will say
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Arise
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and save
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us. {brought...: or, begotten me} {their back: Heb. the hinder part of the neck}

2:28

But where [are] thy gods
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that thou hast made
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thee? let them arise
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if they can save
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thee in the time
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of thy trouble
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for [according to] the number
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of thy cities
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are thy gods
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O Judah
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{trouble: Heb. evil}

2:29

Wherefore will ye plead
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with me? ye all have transgressed
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against me, saith
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the LORD
<03068>_.

2:30

In vain
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have I smitten
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your children
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they received
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no correction
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your own sword
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hath devoured
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your prophets
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like a destroying
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lion
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2:31

O generation
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see
<07200> (8798)

ye the word
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of the LORD
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Have I been a wilderness
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unto Israel
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a land
<0776>

of darkness
<03991>_?

wherefore say
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my people
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We are lords
<07300> (8804)_;

we will come
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no more unto thee? {We are...: Heb. We have dominion}

2:32

Can a maid
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forget
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her ornaments
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[or] a bride
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her attire
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yet my people
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have forgotten
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me days
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without number
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2:33

Why trimmest
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thou thy way
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to seek
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love
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therefore hast thou also taught
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the wicked ones
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thy ways
<01870>_.

2:34

Also in thy skirts
<03671>

is found
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the blood
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of the souls
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of the poor
<034>

innocents
<05355>_:

I have not found
<04672> (8804)

it by secret search
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but upon all these. {secret...: Heb. digging}

2:35

Yet thou sayest
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Because I am innocent
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surely his anger
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shall turn
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from me. Behold, I will plead
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with thee, because thou sayest
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I have not sinned
<02398> (8804)_.

2:36

Why gaddest thou about
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so much
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to change
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thy way
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thou also shalt be ashamed
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of Egypt
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as thou wast ashamed
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of Assyria
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2:37

Yea, thou shalt go forth
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from him, and thine hands
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upon thine head
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for the LORD
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hath rejected
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thy confidences
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and thou shalt not prosper
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in them.

3:1

They say
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If a man
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put away
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his wife
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and she go
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from him, and become another
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man's
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shall he return unto her again
<07725> (8799)_?

shall not that land
<0776>

be greatly
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polluted
<02610> (8799)_?

but thou hast played the harlot
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with many
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lovers
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yet return again
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to me, saith
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the LORD
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{They say: Heb. Saying}

3:2

Lift up
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thine eyes
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unto the high places
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and see
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where
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thou hast not been lien
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with. In the ways
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hast thou sat
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for them, as the Arabian
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in the wilderness
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and thou hast polluted
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the land
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with thy whoredoms
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and with thy wickedness
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3:3

Therefore the showers
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have been withholden
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and there hath been no latter rain
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and thou hadst a whore's
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forehead
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thou refusedst
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to be ashamed
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3:4

Wilt thou not from this time cry
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unto me, My father
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thou [art] the guide
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of my youth
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3:5

Will he reserve
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[his anger] for ever
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will he keep
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[it] to the end
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Behold, thou hast spoken
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and done
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evil things
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as thou couldest
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3:6

The LORD
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said
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also unto me in the days
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of Josiah
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the king
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Hast thou seen
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[that] which backsliding
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Israel
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hath done
<06213> (8804)_?

she is gone up
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upon every high
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mountain
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and under
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every green
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tree
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and there hath played the harlot
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3:7

And I said
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after
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she had done
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all these [things], Turn
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thou unto me. But she returned
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not. And her treacherous
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sister
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Judah
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saw
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[it].

3:8

And I saw
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when for all the causes
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whereby backsliding
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Israel
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committed adultery
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I had put her away
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and given
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her a bill
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of divorce
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yet her treacherous
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sister
<0269>

Judah
<03063>

feared
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not, but went
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and played the harlot
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also.

3:9

And it came to pass through the lightness
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of her whoredom
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that she defiled
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the land
<0776>_,

and committed adultery
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with stones
<068>

and with stocks
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{lightness: or, fame}

3:10

And yet for all this her treacherous
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sister
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Judah
<03063>

hath not turned
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unto me with her whole heart
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but feignedly
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saith
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the LORD
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{feignedly: Heb. in falsehood}

3:11

And the LORD
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said
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unto me, The backsliding
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Israel
<03478>

hath justified
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herself
<05315>

more than treacherous
<0898> (8802)

Judah
<03063>_.