(1.0008510964912) | Jer 3:3 | <p class="poetry">That is why the rains have been withheld,p> <p class="poetry">and the spring rains have not come.p> <p class="poetry">Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.p> |
(0.94305475877193) | Jer 5:7 | <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> asked,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">8220;How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Your people<n id="3" /> have rejected mep> <p class="poetry">and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Even though I supplied all their needs,<n id="5" /> they were like an unfaithful wife to me.<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">They went flocking<n id="7" /> to the houses of prostitutes.<n id="8" />p> |
(0.88525844298246) | Jer 2:20 | <t /><p class="poetry">8220;Indeed,<n id="1" /> long ago you threw off my authorityp> <p class="poetry">and refused to be subject to me.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You said, 8216;I will not serve you.8217;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hillp> <p class="poetry">and under every green tree,p> <p class="poetry">like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.<n id="4" />p> |
(0.88525844298246) | Jer 3:1 | <p class="poetry">8220;If a man divorces his wifep> <p class="poetry">and she leaves him and becomes another man8217;s wife,p> <p class="poetry">he may not take her back again.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Doing that would utterly defile the land.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">So what makes you think you can return to me?8221;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
(0.88525844298246) | Jer 3:6 | <p class="bodytext">When Josiah was king of Judah, the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, 8220;Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done.<n id="1" /> You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods.<n id="2" /> |
(0.88525844298246) | Jer 3:8 | She also saw<n id="1" /> that I gave wayward Israel her divorce papers and sent her away because of her adulterous worship of other gods.<n id="2" /> Even after her unfaithful sister Judah had seen this,<n id="3" /> she still was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods.<n id="4" /> |