^(B)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
    for ^(C)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
^(D)I will not be angry forever.
^13 (E)Only acknowledge your guilt,
    that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under ^(F)every green tree,
    and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
^14 (G)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
    ^(H)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
    and I will bring you to Zion.

3 ^(A)“If^[a] a man divorces his wife
    and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
    will he return to her?
^(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
^(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
    and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
² Lift up your eyes to ^(D)the bare heights, and see!
    Where have you not been ravished?
^(E)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
    like an Arab in the wilderness.
^(F)You have polluted the land
    with your vile whoredom.
^3 (G)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have ^(H)the forehead of a whore;
    you refuse to be ashamed.
⁴ Have you not just now ^(I)called to me,
    ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—

²² “Turn to me and be saved,
    ^(A)all the ends of the earth!
    For I am God, and there is no other.