Jeremiah 3:9
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New International Version (©1984)
Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Israel treated it all so lightly--she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been polluted.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Because she wasn't concerned about acting like a prostitute, she polluted the land and committed adultery with standing stones and wood pillars.

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

American King James Version
And it came to pass through the lightness of her prostitution, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass through the lightness of her lewdness, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

World English Bible
It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Young's Literal Translation
And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.

Geneva Study Bible

And it came to pass through the {l} lightness of her harlotry, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with trees.

(l) The Hebrew word may either signify lightness and wantonness, or noise and brute.

King James Translators' Notes

lightness: or, fame

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. it-Some take this verse of Judah, to whom the end of Jer 3:8 refers. But Jer 3:10 puts Judah in contrast to Israel in this verse. "Yet for all this," referring to the sad example of Israel; if Jer 3:9 referred to Judah, "she" would have been written in Jer 3:10, not "Judah." Translate, "It (the putting away of Israel) had come to pass through . whoredom; and (that is, for) she (Israel) had defiled the land" &c. [Maurer]. English Version, however, may be explained to refer to Israel.

lightness-"infamy." [Ewald]. Maurer not so well takes it from the Hebrew root, "voice," "fame."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:6-11 If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dreadful to be proved more criminal than those who have actually perished in their sins; yet it will be small comfort in everlasting punishment, for them to know that others were viler than they.


Isaiah 57:6 "Among the smooth stones of the ravine Is your portion, they are your lot; Even to them you have poured out a drink offering, You have made a grain offering. Shall I relent concerning these things?
Jeremiah 2:7 "I brought you into the fruitful land To eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, And My inheritance you made an abomination.
Jeremiah 2:27 Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' And to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to Me, And not their face; But in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise and save us.'
Jeremiah 3:2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion-- their idol is wood! (NASB ©1995)

Adultery Behaviour Committed Committeth Committing Defiled Fornication Harlotry Immorality Israel's Lightness Little Polluted Prostitution Stocks Stone Stones Tree Trees Unclean Untrue Whoredom Wood


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

lightness. or, fame Eze 23:10

she defiled Jer 3:2 2:7

committed Jer 2:27 10:8 Isa 57:6 Eze 16:17 Ho 4:12 Hab 2:19

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