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22 Return to me, all of you have turned away.
    I will help you to be faithful to me.

Now you should say,
“Yes, we will return to you,
    because you are the Lord our God.
23 The false gods that we worship on the hills have deceived us.
    Our wild parties on the mountains have not helped us.
Only the Lord our God can really save Israel.
24 Since we were a young nation,
    we have seen all our good things disappear.
The useless gods that we worshipped have taken them.
    They took away the things that our ancestors worked to get.
They took away our sheep and our cows.
    They even took away our sons and our daughters.

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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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