Jeremiah
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Women in Jeremiah

  1. Jeremiah insults people by calling them "harlots" who have sex on every hill and under every tree. 2:20

  2. God compares Jerusalem's sinful ways to a promiscuous woman, or a wild donkey in heat. 2:24

  3. "Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?" This is meant to be a rhetorical question with an obvious answer: Of course not; women think only about their clothes. 2:32

  4. A divorced woman is "polluted" when she remarries. The man, of course, remains perfectly clean through it all, even though he was the one who "put her away" in the first place. 3:1

  5. "In the ways thou hast sat for them ..." A woman can't even sit anymore without being condemned by God. 3:2

  6. Jeremiah loves to insult people. His favorite insult is to call someone a whore. In this verse he accuses Judah of having a "whore's forehead." 3:3

  7. More talk of harlots who have sex under every tree. 3:6

  8. Judah commits adultery with "stocks and stones." 3:9

  9. "Thou ... hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree." 3:13

  10. "As a wife treacherously departeth from her husband ..." If a woman leaves her husband, she is "treacherous," but a man is blameless when he "puts her away" for no reason. 3:20

  11. God threatens to punish the men by taking away all of their property, including their wives, and giving them to others. 6:12

  12. To punish men, God will "give their wives unto others." 8:10

  13. God compares the destruction of Jerusalem to the rape of a woman who deserves to be raped because she has sinned. 13:22

  14. God plans to expose Jerusalem's private parts to the world by lifting her skirt over her head, so to speak. He's seen her commit whoredoms and abominations and whatnot on the hills, and he's getting darned sick of it! 13:26-27

  15. "Have you forgotten ... the wickedness of your wives?" Jeremiah blames it all on "the wickedness" of the Israelites' wives. 44:9
  16. God is going to do some really bad things to the people because the women burned incense to the "Queen of Heaven" (Mary?). 44:15-23

  17. God will cause the daughters of Rabbah to be burned with fire. 49:2

  18. God plans to make the Babylonian men "become like women." (A fate worse than death to a misogynous god.). 50:37