9And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.


In Context

6 And 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.

7 And I said, After she hath done all these things, she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw it.

8 And I saw that when for all the causes wherein backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet the treacherous Judah, her sister, feared not, but went and committed fornication also.

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

10 And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith Jehovah.

11 And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah.

Jeremiah 3:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:9Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:9And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9And it came to pass through the lightness of her lewdness, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9And 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:9And it came to pass through the lightness of her prostitution, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.