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Jeremiah 3:14

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

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ASV

Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

KJV

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שׁ֣וּבוּShu.vureturnH7725 →
בָנִ֤יםva.NimO sonsH1121 →
שׁוֹבָבִים֙shoa.VimbackslidingH7726 →
נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
כִּ֥יkiforH3588 →
אָנֹכִ֖י'a.no.KhiIH595 →
בָּעַ֣לְתִּיba.'Al.tiI am husbandH1166 →
בָכֶ֑םva.Khemover <the> you
וְלָקַחְתִּ֨יve.la.kach.Tiand I will takeH3947 →
אֶתְכֶ֜ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853 →
אֶחָ֣ד'e.ChadoneH259 →
מֵעִ֗ירme.'Irfrom a cityH5892 →
וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙u.she.Na.yimand twoH8147 →
מִמִּשְׁפָּחָ֔הmi.mish.pa.Chahfrom a clanH4940 →
וְהֵבֵאתִ֥יve.he.ve.Tiand I will bringH935 →
אֶתְכֶ֖ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853 →
צִיּֽוֹן׃tzi.YonZionH6726 →

The walk

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Isaiah 62:4No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.Hosea 2:19–20So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.Jeremiah 31:32It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.Isaiah 54:5For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.Jeremiah 31:8–10Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!Ezekiel 34:11–14For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.Zechariah 13:7–9Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.Isaiah 6:13And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”Jeremiah 23:3Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.Jeremiah 3:8She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.Isaiah 10:22Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.Isaiah 11:11–12On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.Isaiah 31:6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.Isaiah 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.Romans 11:4–6And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”Isaiah 24:13–15So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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