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22 Return, rebellious children!
    I will heal your rebellions.
“Here we are! We belong to you,
    for you are the Lord, our God.(A)
23 Deceptive indeed are the hills,
    the mountains, clamorous;
Only in the Lord our God
    is Israel’s salvation.(B)
24 The shameful thing[a] has devoured
    our ancestors’ worth from our youth,
Their sheep and cattle,
    their sons and daughters.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:24 The shameful thing: Heb. bosheth (“shame”), a term often substituted for the name of Baal, a Canaanite god worshiped at local shrines.

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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