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Jer. 13:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighingsk, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hillsa in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? βwhen shallc it once be?

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Jer. 5:8• ⁸They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. (Jer. 5:8)

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Isa. 65:7• ⁷your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and outraged me upon the hills: I will measure their former work into their bosom. (Isa. 65:7)

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Ezek. 6:13• ¹³Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. (Ezek. 6:13)

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after when yet?

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Hos. 8:5• ⁵Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to purity? (Hos. 8:5)

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thine adulteries.

Jer. 2:20‑24• ²⁰For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot.
²¹And I, —I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
²³How sayest thou, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? See thy way in the valley, acknowledge what thou hast done—a swift dromedary traversing her ways!
²⁴—a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. (Jer. 2:20‑24)

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Jer. 3:1‑2• ¹They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.
²Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness. (Jer. 3:1‑2)

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Jer. 5:7‑8• ⁷How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
⁸They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. (Jer. 5:7‑8)

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Ezek. 16:15‑22• ¹⁵But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown. and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by: his it was.
¹⁶And of thy garments thou didst take and make for thyself high places with divers colours, and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more.
¹⁷Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
¹⁸and tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them,
¹⁹my meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.
²⁰Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
²¹that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
²²And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, when thou wast weltering in thy blood. (Ezek. 16:15‑22)

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Ezek. 23:2‑21• ²Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
³And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.
⁴And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; they were mine, and they begat sons and daughters. As for their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
⁵And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours,
⁶clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
⁷And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
⁸Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.
⁹Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.
¹⁰These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a name among women; and they executed judgment upon her.
¹¹And her sister Oholibah saw this, and was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her fornications more than the whoredoms of her sister.
¹²She lusted after the children of Asshur her neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.
¹³Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both took one way.
¹⁴And she increased her fornications; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
¹⁵girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, after the likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their nativity.
¹⁶And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
¹⁷And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
¹⁸And she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness; and my mind was alienated from her, as my mind was alienated from her sister.
¹⁹Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;
²⁰and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is as the issue of horses.
²¹And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of thy youth. (Ezek. 23:2‑21)

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Hos. 1:2• ²The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from Jehovah. (Hos. 1:2)

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Hos. 4:2• ²Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, burst out, and blood toucheth on blood (Hos. 4:2)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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James 4:4• ⁴Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore shall be minded to be friend of the world is constituted enemy of God. (James 4:4)

abominations.

Jer. 2:20• ²⁰For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot. (Jer. 2:20)

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Jer. 3:2,6• ²Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.
⁶And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication. (Jer. 3:2,6)

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Isa. 57:7• ⁷Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed: thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. (Isa. 57:7)

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Isa. 65:7• ⁷your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and outraged me upon the hills: I will measure their former work into their bosom. (Isa. 65:7)

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Ezek. 6:13• ¹³Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. (Ezek. 6:13)

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Ezek. 20:28• ²⁸For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation to their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings. (Ezek. 20:28)

Woe.

Jer. 4:13• ¹³Behold he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are spoiled. (Jer. 4:13)

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Ezek. 2:10• ¹⁰And he spread it out before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe. (Ezek. 2:10)

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Ezek. 24:6• ⁶Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. (Ezek. 24:6)

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Zeph. 3:1• ¹Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! (Zeph. 3:1)

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Matt. 11:21• ²¹Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you, had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented in sackcloth and ashes. (Matt. 11:21)

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Rev. 8:13• ¹³And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe to those that dwell on the earth from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels that are to sound! (Rev. 8:13)

wilt.

Jer. 4:14• ¹⁴O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? (Jer. 4:14)

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Psa. 94:4,8• ⁴They prate, they speak arrogantly;{HR}All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
⁸Consider, ye brutish among the people,{HR}And fools, when will ye be wise? (Psa. 94:4,8)

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Ezek. 24:13• ¹³In thy uncleanness is incest: because I cleansed thee and thou wouldst not be cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy uncleanness anymore till I have caused my fury to rest on thee. (Ezek. 24:13)

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Ezek. 36:25,37• ²⁵Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
³⁷Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. (Ezek. 36:25,37)

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Luke 11:9‑13• ⁹And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
¹⁰For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it will be opened.
¹¹But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?
¹²or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?
¹³If, therefore, ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will the Father who [is] of heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him. (Luke 11:9‑13)

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2 Cor. 7:1• ¹Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear. (2 Cor. 7:1)

when, etc.

Heb. after when yet?

shall.

Prov. 1:22• ²²How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness,{HR}And scorners delight them in scorning,{HR}And fools hate wisdom? (Prov. 1:22)

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Hos. 8:5• ⁵Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to purity? (Hos. 8:5)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy fornication, on the hills, in the fields,—thine abominations, have I seen. Woe unto thee, Jerusalem! Wilt thou not be made clean? after how long a time yet?

W. Kelly Translation

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Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy fornication, on the hills, in the fields, —thine abominations, have I seen. Woe unto thee, Jerusalem! Wilt thou not be made clean? after how long a time yet?

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)