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


In Context

6 During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.

7 I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

8 I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.

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

10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense," declares the Lord .

11 The Lord said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:9And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and 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.