22 ‘Return, faithless people;
    I will cure you of backsliding.’

‘Yes, we will come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.
23 Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills
    and mountains is a deception;
surely in the Lord our God
    is the salvation of Israel.
24 From our youth shameful gods have consumed
    the fruits of our ancestors’ labour –
their flocks and herds,
    their sons and daughters.

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