You Have Practised Adultery With Many Lovers
Jeremiah Chapter 3 gives a picture of religious infidelity. Jeremiah is seen here using the strongest possible illustration to describe how Israel had on several occasions forsaken God and worshipped other gods, thereby describing Israel as an unfaithful woman religiously sleeping around with other gods, which resulted in total alienation from God. Judah’s sin was even worse, having seen her Sister’s actions, took her own prostitution to another level. She was doing it boldly to slight God. She was not ashamed of it and, in the process, defiled the land…