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Jeremiah 3:9

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

KJV

et facilitate fornicationis suæ contaminavit terram, et mœchata est cum lapide et ligno :

Vulgate

καὶ ἐγένετο εἰς οὐθὲν ἡ πορνεία αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐμοίχευσεν τὸ ξύλον καὶ τὸν λίθον.

LXX

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

ASV

וְ/הָיָה֙ מִ/קֹּ֣ל זְנוּתָ֔/הּ וַ/תֶּחֱנַ֖ף אֶת הָ/אָ֑רֶץ וַ/תִּנְאַ֥ף אֶת הָ/אֶ֖בֶן וְ/אֶת הָ/עֵֽץ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣בֶן
'bn
noun · 267×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יַחֲנִ֖יף
ychnyp
verb · 11×
ךְ
k
noun · 9×
מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים
mn'pym
verb · 31×
עֵ֣ץ
'ts
noun · 324×
ק֣וֹל
qvl
noun · 503×

Historic Christian voices

3 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

  • Exod 34:15 — Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
  • Ezek 36:17 — Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
  • Hos 1:2 — The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from
  • Isa 57:6 — Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
  • Isa 57:6 — Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
  • Jer 2:7 — And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
  • Jer 2:7 — And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
  • Jer 2:27 — Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, a
  • Jer 3:2 — Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whor
  • Jer 10:8 — But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 16:18 — And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
  • Judg 8:33 — And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.