Jeremiah 3

Treated in 19 passages across the library.

  • 3:15 I will give you shepherds who are after my own heart, and they will shepherd you with knowledge and insight. 5
  • 3:12 Go and proclaim this message toward the north: 'Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am loyal in love, declares the LORD. I will not stay angry forever. 3
  • 3:22 Return, faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness. "We are here; we have come to you, because you are the LORD our God. 3
  • 3:14 Return, faithless children, declares the LORD, for I am your husband. I will take you, one from a town and two from a clan, and bring you to Zion. 2
  • 3:23 Surely the hills are a delusion, and the uproar on the mountains; surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. 2
  • 3:1 This is the message: If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and marries another man, will he go back to her again? Would that land not be thoroughly defiled? Yet you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you now come back to me? declares the LORD. 1
  • 3:3 So the showers have been held back, and the spring rain has not come. Yet your face is as brazen as a prostitute's; you will not let yourself feel shame. 1
  • 3:10 Even after all this, her treacherous sister Judah did not come back to me wholeheartedly; it was only a pretense, declares the LORD." 1
  • 3:13 Only admit your guilt: you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have run here and there to foreign gods under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with Those Who Lack Assurance and with Backsliders cites Jer. iii. 12

    …to come back to the Lord. These are perhaps as easy a class to deal with as we ever find. Jer. iii. 12, 13, and 22, will show them how ready the Lord is to receive them back and that all he…

  2. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Pastoral Calling cites Jeremiah 3:15

    …are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another.” Jeremiah 3:15 — “I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and…

  3. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 1 — Of the True Church cites Jer. 3:1

    …to fall upon you; for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever” (Jer. 3:1, 12). And surely he could not have a different feeling who declares, “I have no pleasure…

  4. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Assurance cites Jer 3:3

    …thou not cry unto me, My Father? Behold, thou hast done evil things as thou couldest.’ Jer 3:3, 5. Balaam said, ‘My God,’ yet was a sorcerer. It is a sign he has no money about him…

  5. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Introduction cites Jer. 3:10

    …that great reformation, and revival of religion, that was in Josiah's time; as appears by Jer. 3:10, and 4:3, 4, and also by the great apostasy that there was in the land, so soon after his…

  6. Lectures to My Students · Charles H. Spurgeon

    On Spiritualizing cites Jer. iii. 12

    …I will plant them in this land assuredly, with my whole heart, and with my whole soul.' Jer. iii. 12, 14, 22; xxxii. 41; Rev. xxi. 6; xxii. 17. Wherefore, the oil of grace, signified by this…

  7. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.2 Repentance cites Jer 3: 12

    …saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you, for I am merciful.’ Jer 3: 12. If thy sins are as rocks, yet upon thy repentance, the sea of God’s mercy can drown…

  8. The Key Teachings of Dwight L. Moody · Ochorus Originals

    That Ye May Know cites Jeremiah 3:13

    …Moody says; they left Him. And the way back is open: only acknowledge your iniquity (Jeremiah 3:13). A word of care Moody’s teaching on assurance has comforted countless people. One…

  9. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    July cites Jeremiah 3:14

    …is with us, we are his own, Our victory cannot fail.” July 22 “I am married unto you.” (Jeremiah 3:14) Christ Jesus is joined unto his people in marriage-union. In love he espoused his Church…

  10. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Covenant of Grace cites Jer 3:14

    …bowels to sinners. This is a marriage covenant. “I am married to you, saith the Lord.” Jer 3:14. In the new covenant, God makes himself over to us, and what can he give more? He makes…

  11. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

    Conclusion: The Chief Shepherd Still Calls cites Jeremiah 3:15

    …you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.” — Jeremiah 3:15 (NIV)

  12. Men Who Tended the Flock · Ochorus Originals

    Richard Baxter — The Reformed Pastor Who Visited Every Door cites Jeremiah 3:15

    …you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding” (Jeremiah 3:15, NIV). The shepherd God gives after His own heart leads with knowledge and understanding…

  13. The Key Teachings of John Bunyan · Ochorus Originals

    The Delectable Mountains cites JEREMIAH 3:15

    …pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. JEREMIAH 3:15 Things shown from the hilltops The next morning the shepherds take the pilgrims walking…

  14. Lectures to My Students · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Call to the Ministry cites Jer. iii. 15

    …that ancient promise be fulfilled, “I will give them pastors according to mine heart.” Jer. iii. 15. “I will set up shepherds over them, which shall feed them.” Jer. .xxiii. 4. May the Lord…

  15. The Ministry of Intercession · Andrew Murray

    Who Shall Deliver? cites Jer. iii. 22

    …I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto Thee; for Thou art the Lord our God.”—Jer. iii. 22. “Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed.”—Jer. xii. 14. “O wretched man that I am! who…

  16. Talks to the Farmer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Loaded Wagon cites Jeremiah 3:22

    …(Isaiah 1:2). Hear again: “Return, O faithless people; I will heal your faithlessness” (Jeremiah 3:22). Better still, hear the lament from Jesus, gentle as dew: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you…

  17. The Key Teachings of A. W. Tozer · Ochorus Originals

    The Deeper Life cites JEREMIAH 3:22

    …beginning of return. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. JEREMIAH 3:22 For those who would go on, his counsel was simple and unspectacular. Seek God…

  18. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd · David Brainerd

    Labors for the Indians at and near the Forks of Delaware—idolatrous feast and dance—journey through the wilderness to Opeholhaupung or the Susquehanna—erects a cottage at Forks of the Delaware—some evidences of a work of the Spirit among the Indians—journey to New-England to obtain money to support cites Jer. 3:23

    …preach to the white people with some power, especially in the close of my discourse, from Jer. 3:23. ‘Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills,’ &c. The Lord also assisted me in…

  19. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VIII. Nothing can certainly be determined concerning the nature of the affections, by this, that comforts and joys seem to follow awakenings and convictions of conscience, in a certain order cites Jer. 3:23

    …from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains,” and that God only can save them, Jer. 3:23, 24, 25. Joseph, who was sold by his brethren, and therein was a type of Christ, brings…