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Jeremiah 3:9

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3:9Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land21 through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.22

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  1. 21 The translation reads the form as a causative (Hiphil, תַּהֲנֵף, tahanef) with some of the versions in place of the simple stative (Qal, תֶּחֱנַף, tekhenaf) in the .
  2. 22 Heb “because of the lightness of her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

NLTNew Living Translation

Israel treated it all so lightly—she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been polluted.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And it was because of the frivolity of her fornication that she defiled the land and committed adultery with the stone and with the tree.

KJV 1900King James Version

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.