the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Brenton's Septuagint
Jeremiah 3:9
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Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
"And because of the thoughtlessness of her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
And she didn't care that she was acting like a prostitute. So she made her country unclean and was guilty of adultery, because she worshiped idols made of stone and wood.
"Because of the thoughtlessness of Israel's prostitution [her immorality mattered little to her], she desecrated the land and committed adultery with [idols of] stones and trees.
It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
So that for the lightnesse of her whoredome shee hath euen defiled the lande: for shee hath committed fornication with stones and stockes.
So it was, because of the lightness of her harlotry, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
Indifferent to her immorality, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
The kingdom of Judah wasn't sorry for being a prostitute, and she didn't care that she had made both herself and the land unclean by worshiping idols of stone and wood.
The ease with which Isra'el prostituted herself defiled the land, as she committed adultery with stones and with logs.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Judah did not care that she was acting like a prostitute. So she made her country ‘dirty.' She committed the sin of adultery by worshiping idols made out of stone and wood.
And her whoredom was so excessive that she defiled the land and committed adultery with idols of stone and wood,
and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees.
And it was because of the frivolity of her fornication that she defiled the land and committed adultery with the stone and with the tree.
And it happened, from the wantonness of her harlotry she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with pieces of wood.
Yee and the noyse of hir whordome hath defyled the whole lode. For she hath committed hir aduoutrie with stones and stockes.
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.
So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.
and it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks;
And it came to passe thorow the lightnes of her whoredome, that shee defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stockes.
Yea and the wantonnesse of her whoredome hath defyled the whole lande: For she hath comitted fornication with stones and stockes.
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.
And bi liytnesse of hir fornicacioun sche defoulide the erthe, and dide auowtrie with a stoon, and with a tree.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her prostitution, that she defiled herself together with the land, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her lewdness, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.
So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
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.
And because this sin was so easy for her, she sinned by worshiping stones and trees.
Because she took her whoredom so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
Yea though it had come to pass that through the levity of her unchastity, she had defiled the land, - and committed adultery with Stone and with Tree,
And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.
Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
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.
"Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
lightness: or, fame, Ezekiel 23:10
she defiled: Jeremiah 3:2, Jeremiah 2:7
committed: Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 10:8, Isaiah 57:6, Ezekiel 16:17, Hosea 4:12, Habakkuk 2:19
Reciprocal: Exodus 34:15 - whoring Judges 8:33 - went 2 Chronicles 21:13 - a whoring Jeremiah 3:1 - shall not that Jeremiah 16:18 - they have defiled Ezekiel 8:10 - every Ezekiel 16:32 - General Ezekiel 20:18 - defile Ezekiel 36:17 - they defiled Hosea 1:2 - for Hosea 2:2 - let
Cross-References
And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat?
And Adam said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate.
And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.
And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she was the mother of all living.
And the Lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he said, I know not, am I my brother’s keeper?
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
And the angel of the Lord said to her, Agar, Sara’s maid, whence comest thou, and wither goest thou? and she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sara.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it came to pass, through the lightness of her whoredom,.... Or the "swiftness" b of it; when it was once set on foot, it ran through the land presently one taking it from and following the example of another; or it became a light thing with her to commit idolatry; it was looked upon as a small thing, a trivial offence at most: so the Targum,
"it came to pass that her idols were light in her eyes;''
not lightly esteemed of, but it was a light thing to commit idolatry with them; interpreting the word as the Masora, which it follows: and to the same sense the Septuagint version, "her fornication was for nothing"; it stood for nothing, it was not reckoned as a sin: the Arabic version is, "her fornication was with nothing"; with an idol, which is nothing in the world, 1 Corinthians 8:4, some choose to render it, "because of the voice or fame of her whoredom" c, or idolatry; it sounded forth, and the fame, or rather infamy of it, went out through the whole land: wherefore it follows,
that she defiled the land; polluted it with sin, involved it in guilt, and exposed it to punishment:
and committed adultery with stones and with stocks; that is, with images made of stone and wood, which they served and worshipped as gods; and is the adultery or idolatry they are charged with, and by which the land was defiled. The Targum is,
"she erred or committed idolatry with the worshippers of stone and wood.''
This, by what follows, seems to be understood not of Judah, but of Israel.
b ××§× "a levitate", a ק××, "velocem esse", Calvin. c Heb. "propter vocem scortationis ejus, [vel] famosam scortationem", Piscator; "a voce scortationis ejus", Schmidt; "propter famam scortationis ejus", Cocceius; "prae famosa scortatione", Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Lightness - Others render as in the margin.
Defiled - Rather, profaned. The land especially consecrated to Yahwehâs service was treated by Judah as a common land.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 3:9. The lightness of her whoredom — The grossness of her idolatry: worshipping objects the most degrading, with rites the most impure.
