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18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel. They will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.”

19 “Then I Myself said:
‘How gladly would I make you sons
    and give you a pleasant land—
    the most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’
    I thought you would call Me—Avi!—
    and would not turn from following Me.
20 Yet as a woman betrays her lover,
    so have you betrayed Me, O house of Israel.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.

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18 In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel,(A) and together(B) they will come from a northern(C) land to the land(D) I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.

19 “I myself said,

“‘How gladly would I treat you like my children
    and give you a pleasant land,(E)
    the most beautiful inheritance(F) of any nation.’
I thought you would call me ‘Father’(G)
    and not turn away from following me.
20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,
    so you, Israel, have been unfaithful(H) to me,”
declares the Lord.

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