Jeremiah 3:11-22
11And Yahweh said to me, “aFaithless Israel has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12“Go and call out these words toward the north and say, ‘1,aReturn, faithless Israel,’ declares Yahweh;‘bI will not 2look upon you in anger.For I am cOne of lovingkindness,’ declares Yahweh;‘I will not be angry forever.
13‘Only 1,aacknowledge your iniquity,That you have transgressed against Yahweh your GodAnd have bscattered your ways of harlotry to the strangers cunder every green tree,And you have not listened to My voice,’ declares Yahweh.14‘1Return, O faithless sons,’ declares Yahweh;‘For I am a amaster to you,And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,And bI will bring you to Zion.’15“Then I will give you ashepherds after My own heart, who will 1,bshepherd you on knowledge and understanding. 16“It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and fruitful in the land,” declares Yahweh, “they will ano longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of Yahweh.’ And it will not come upon the heart, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again. 17“At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The aThrone of Yahweh,’ and ball the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the cname of Yahweh; nor will they dwalk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart. 18“aIn those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together bfrom the land of the north to the cland that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.
19“Then I said, ‘How I would set you among 1My sonsAnd give you a pleasant land,The most abeautiful inheritance of the nations!’And I said, ‘You shall call Me, b“My Father,”And not turn away from following Me.’
20“Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her 1lover,So you have adealt treacherously with Me,O house of Israel,” declares Yahweh.21A voice is heard on the abare heights,The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel;Because they have perverted their way,They have bforgotten Yahweh their God.221“Return, O faithless sons;aI will heal your faithlessness.”“Behold, we come to You,For You are Yahweh our God.