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


In Context

6 Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, |Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

7 I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she didn't return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

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

10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,| says Yahweh.

11 Yahweh said to me, |Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous 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 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 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.