Jeremiah 3:11
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
KJV
Et dixit Dominus ad me : Justificavit animam suam aversatrix Israël, comparatione prævaricatricis Judæ.
Vulgate
καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος πρὸς μέ Ἐδικαίωσεν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ τῆς ἀσυνθέτου Ἰουδά.
LXX
And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
ASV
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔/י צִדְּקָ֥ה נַפְשָׁ֖/הּ מְשֻׁבָ֣ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מִ/בֹּגֵדָ֖ה יְהוּדָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
בֹּגְדִ֣ים
bgdym
verb · 49×
הַצְדִּ֣יק
htsdyq
verb · 41×
י
y
noun · 752×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יְהוּדָ֔ה
yhvdh
proper_noun · 809×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
מְשֻׁבָ֣ה
mshbh
noun · 13×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§370In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman. God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes. But the respective "perfections" of man and woman reflect something of the infinite perfection of God: those of a mother and those of a father and husband.241 "Each for the other" - "A unity in two"
Cross-references
- Ezek 16:47 — Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
- Ezek 16:51 — Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
- Ezek 23:11 — And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
- Hos 4:16 — For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
- Hos 11:7 — And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
- Hos 11:7 — And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
- Luke 11:31 — The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a gr
- Matt 12:41 — The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.