Jeremiah 3:3 Cross References

Jeremiah 3:3

3: That is why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a prostitute and are completely unashamed.

The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are afraid; they, too, cover their heads.

I will break down your arrogant spirit by making the skies above as unyielding as iron and the earth beneath as hard as bronze.

They do not say from the heart, `Let us live in awe of the LORD our God, for he gives us rain each spring and fall, assuring us of plentiful harvests.'

Can any of the foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, it comes from you, the LORD our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.

The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.

I will make it a wild place. I will not prune the vines or hoe the ground. I will let it be overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no more rain on it."

We watch as our food disappears before our very eyes. There are no joyful celebrations in the house of our God.
The seeds die in the parched ground, and the grain crops fail. The barns and granaries stand empty and abandoned.
How the animals moan with hunger! The cattle wander about confused because there is no pasture for them. The sheep bleat in misery.
LORD, help us! The fire has consumed the pastures and burned up all the trees.
Even the wild animals cry out to you because they have no water to drink. The streams have dried up, and fire has consumed the pastures.

"I kept the rain from falling when you needed it the most, ruining all your crops. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.

I have called for a drought on your fields and hills--a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olives and all your other crops, a drought to starve both you and your cattle and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get."

Are they ashamed when they do these disgusting things? No, not at all--they don't even blush! Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered. They will be humbled beneath my punishing anger," says the LORD.

Are they ashamed when they do these disgusting things? No, not at all--they don't even blush! Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered. They will be humbled when they are punished, says the LORD.

But the LORD is still there in the city, and he does no wrong. Day by day his justice is more evident, but no one takes notice--the wicked know no shame.

"We will not listen to your messages from the LORD!
We will do whatever we want. We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and sacrifice to her just as much as we like--just as we and our ancestors did before us, and as our kings and princes have always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For in those days we had plenty to eat, and we were well off and had no troubles!

LORD, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to turn from sin. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.

See to it that you obey God, the one who is speaking to you. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, how terrible our danger if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven!

I am sending you to the people of Israel, but they won't listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard-hearted and stubborn.

Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it to others? Why has the land been ruined so completely that no one even dares to travel through it?

"What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign LORD, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.
You build your pagan shrines on every street corner and your altars to idols in every square. You have been worse than a prostitute, so eager for sin that you have not even demanded payment for your love!
Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.
Prostitutes charge for their services--but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come to you.
So you are the opposite of other prostitutes. No one pays you; instead, you pay them!

"They refused to listen and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt! But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and full of unfailing love and mercy. You did not abandon them,

"Your ancestors would not listen to this message. They turned stubbornly away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.
They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the law or the messages that the LORD Almighty had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the LORD Almighty was so angry with them.

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