Jeremiah 3:21

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    A voice{H6963} is heard{H8085} upon the bare heights,{H8205} the weeping{H1065} [and] the supplications{H8469} of the children{H1121} of Israel;{H3478} because they have perverted{H5753} their way,{H1870} they have forgotten{H7911} Jehovah{H3068} their God.{H430}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    A voice{H6963} was heard{H8085}{(H8738)} upon the high places{H8205}, weeping{H1065} and supplications{H8469} of the children{H1121} of Israel{H3478}: for they have perverted{H5753}{(H8689)} their way{H1870}, and they have forgotten{H7911}{(H8804)} the LORD{H3068} their God{H430}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And therfore the voyce of the children of Israel was herde on euery side, wepinge and waylinge: for they haue defyled their waye, and forgotten God their LORDE.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    A voice was heard vpon the hie places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they haue peruerted their way, and forgotten the Lord their God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    The voyce of the children of Israel was hearde on hye, weepyng and waylyng: for that they haue defiled their way, and forgotten God their Lorde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping `and' the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping [and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; they have forgotten to be true to the LORD their God.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 15:2 : 2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off.
  • Isa 17:10 : 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, you will plant pleasant plants and set them with imported vines.
  • Jer 2:32 : 32 Can a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding adornments? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and with pleas for mercy, I will lead them. I will guide them to streams of water on a straight path where they will not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow produces death.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim’s lamenting: 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf. Restore me, and I will return, for you are the LORD my God.' 19 After I turned away, I repented; after I came to understand, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son, my precious child? For as often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore, my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days and at that time,' declares the LORD, 'the people of Israel and the people of Judah will come together, weeping as they go, seeking the LORD their God. 5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 Those who escape will flee to the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each because of their iniquity.
  • Ezek 23:35 : 35 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because you have forgotten me and thrust me behind your back, you must also bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.'
  • Hos 8:14 : 14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many cities. But I will send fire on their cities, and it will devour their strongholds.
  • Hos 13:6 : 6 As they were fed, they were satisfied; as they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and so they forgot me.
  • Mic 3:9 : 9 Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you who despise justice and twist all that is right:
  • Zech 12:10-14 : 10 And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on Me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son. 11 On that day, the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves. 13 The family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves. 14 All the remaining families, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
  • Jer 30:15-17 : 15 Why do you cry out over your injury? Your pain is incurable. Because of your great guilt and many sins, I have done these things to you. 16 But all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plundered, and all who loot you I will give as loot. 17 For I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast, saying, 'This is Zion; no one cares for her.'
  • Num 22:32 : 32 The angel of the LORD asked him, 'Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.'
  • Job 33:27 : 27 They sing before others and say, 'I have sinned and perverted what was right, but it was not repaid to me.'
  • Prov 10:9 : 9 The one who walks in integrity walks securely, but the one who perverts his ways will be found out.
  • Prov 19:3 : 3 A man’s foolishness twists his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your waywardness. 'Here we are,' they reply, 'for you are the LORD our God.'

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    80%

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    78%

    11 The LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah."

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    13 Only acknowledge your guilt—that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, scattered your favors to strangers under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed my voice,' declares the LORD.

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    78%

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    77%

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    75%

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    75%

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    74%

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    74%

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    74%

    17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'

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    15 Yet My people have forgotten Me; they burn incense to worthless idols. They have stumbled in their ways, on ancient paths, and have strayed onto byways, roads not built up.

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    2 They cry out to me, 'My God, we know you, O Israel!'

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    1 Listen to this word that I am raising against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.

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    74%

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    74%

    6 For our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their backs on His dwelling place, and walked away.

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    13 Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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    73%

    47 and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly';

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    1 Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! For the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.

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    73%

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    73%

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    73%

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    73%

    13 And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offering or accepts it with favor from your hands.

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    73%

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  • 1 Sam 12:10
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    73%

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    73%

    12 Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

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    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

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    72%

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    20 We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness and the guilt of our ancestors; indeed, we have sinned against You.

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    72%

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    72%

    7 From the days of your ancestors, you have turned away from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts. But you ask, 'How shall we return?'

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