Jeremiah 3:3

Jeremiah 3:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no latter rain. You have had a harlot’s forehead; You refuse to be ashamed.

Context of Jeremiah 3:3

1“If a man divorces a woman and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, so why are you trying to come back to me?” says the Lord. 2“Look at the shrines on every hilltop. Is there any place you have not been defiled by your adultery with other gods? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a customer. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and your wickedness. That’s why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless. 4Yet you say to me, ‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth. 5Surely you won’t be angry forever! Surely you can forget about it!’ So you talk, but you keep on doing all the evil you can.”

Jeremiah 3:3 word by word

וַיִּמָּנְע֣וּ רְבִבִ֔ים וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ ל֣וֹא הָיָ֑ה וּמֵ֨צַח אִשָּׁ֤ה זוֹנָה֙ הָ֣יָה לָ֔ךְ מֵאַ֖נְתְּ הִכָּלֵֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore the showersרְבִיבִיםrâbîyb · showerH7241
• have been withholdenמָנַעmâna‛ · to withholdH4513
• and there hath been no latter rainמַלְקוֹשׁmalqôsh · spring rainH4456
• and thou hadst a whore’sאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · womanH802
• and thou hadst a whore’sזָנָהzânâh · to fornicateH2181
• foreheadמֵ֫צַחmêtsach · foreheadH4696
• thou refusedstמָאֵןmâ'ên · to refuseH3985
• to be ashamedכָּלַםkâlam · be humiliatedH3637

Cross-references for Jeremiah 3:3

• Jeremiah 9:12Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it to others? Why has the land been so ruined that no one dares to travel through it?
• Jeremiah 14:4The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are deeply troubled; they, too, cover their heads.
• Leviticus 26:19I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze.
• Deuteronomy 28:23The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.
• Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.
• Joel 1:16Our food disappears before our very eyes. No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.
• Amos 4:7“I kept the rain from falling when your crops needed it the most. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
• Haggai 1:11I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”
• Jeremiah 5:24They do not say from the heart, ‘Let us live in awe of the Lord our God, for he gives us rain each spring and fall, assuring us of a harvest when the time is right.’
• Jeremiah 5:3Lord, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to be corrected. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.
• Jeremiah 6:15Are they ashamed of their disgusting actions? Not at all—they don’t even know how to blush! Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered. They will be brought down when I punish them,” says the Lord.
• Jeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed of these disgusting actions? Not at all—they don’t even know how to blush! Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered. They will be brought down when I punish them, says the Lord.
• Jeremiah 44:16“We will not listen to your messages from the Lord!
• Ezekiel 3:7But the people of Israel won’t listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard-hearted and stubborn.
• Ezekiel 16:30“What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign Lord, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.
• Zephaniah 3:5But the Lord is still there in the city, and he does no wrong. Day by day he hands down justice, and he does not fail. But the wicked know no shame.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 3:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3There hath been no latter rain - The former rain, which prepared the earth for tillage, fell in the beginning of November, or a little sooner; and the latter rain fell in the middle of April, after which there was scarcely any rain during the summer.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The Lord did not approve of the people's shameless behavior. He had already caused a drought, and their sexual rituals could not stop it (Jeremiah 14:3–6; Leviticus 26:19; Zephaniah 3:5).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. no latter rain--essential to the crops in Palestine; withheld in judgment (Le 26:19; compare Joe 2:23). whore's forehead--(Jr 8:12; Eze 3:8).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 3:3

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Backsliders
• Church
• Condescension of God
• Idolatry
• Rain

In the dictionaries

• Adultery
• Confusion
• Marriage
• Marry
• Rain
• Reserve
• Ashamed
• Forehead
• Habaziniah
• Harlot

Commentaries on Jeremiah 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings