Jeremiah 3:3
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.
Therefore the showers {H7241} have been withholden {H4513}, and there hath been no latter rain {H4456}; and thou hadst a whore's {H2181}{H802} forehead {H4696}, thou refusedst {H3985} to be ashamed {H3637}.
For this reason the showers have been withheld, there has been no rain in the spring; still you maintain a whore's brazen look and refuse to be ashamed.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Cross-References
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Leviticus 26:19 (9 votes)
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: -
Jeremiah 14:4 (8 votes)
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. -
Jeremiah 14:22 (7 votes)
Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things]. -
Isaiah 5:6 (7 votes)
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. -
Jeremiah 5:24 (7 votes)
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. -
Deuteronomy 28:23 (7 votes)
And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron. -
Haggai 1:11 (6 votes)
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon [that] which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
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