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Jeremiah 3:22-25
The Message
Jeremiah 3:22-25
The Message
21-22 The sound of voices comes drifting out of the hills,
the unhappy sound of Israel’s crying,
Israel lamenting the wasted years,
never once giving her God a thought.
“Come back, wandering children!
I can heal your wanderlust!”
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22-25 “We’re here! We’ve come back to you.
You’re our own true God!
All that popular religion was a cheap lie,
duped crowds buying up the latest in gods.
We’re back! Back to our true God,
the salvation of Israel.
The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us
of what our ancestors bequeathed us,
Gypped us out of our inheritance—
God-blessed flocks and God-given children.
We made our bed and now lie in it,
all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor.
All because we sinned against our God,
we and our fathers and mothers.
From the time we took our first steps, said our first words,
we’ve been rebels, disobeying the voice of our God.”
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Jeremiah 3:22-24
New International Version
Jeremiah 3:22-24
New International Version
“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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