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22 Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings.

Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God. 23 Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the [a]tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel. 24 But the [b]shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:23 Or, noisy throng
  2. Jeremiah 3:24 Hebrew shame. See 11:13; Hos. 9:10.

22 “Return,(A) faithless people;
    I will cure(B) you of backsliding.”(C)

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

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