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Jeremiah 3:9

King James Version (KJV)
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary

The lightness of her whoredom - The grossness of her idolatry: worshipping objects the most degrading, with rites the most impure.

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Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible

Lightness - Others render as in the margin.

Defiled - Rather, profaned. The land especially consecrated to Yahweh‘s service was treated by Judah as a common land.

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Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary
If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dreadful to be proved more criminal than those who have actually perished in their sins; yet it will be small comfort in everlasting punishment, for them to know that others were viler than they.
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Cross References
lightness
Ezekiel 23:10
she defiled
Jeremiah 3:2
Jeremiah 2:7
committed
Jeremiah 2:27
Jeremiah 10:8
Isaiah 57:6
Ezekiel 16:17
Hosea 4:12
Habakkuk 2:19