Jeremiah 4:1-3

New Catholic Bible

¹ If you return, O Israel, says the Lord,
    if you return to me,
if you banish your loathsome idols from my sight
    and do not go astray,
² and if you swear, “As the Lord lives!”
    in truth, in justice, and in uprightness,
then the nations will bless themselves by him
    and will glory in him.

Break up your unplowed ground
    and do not sow among thorns.