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22 “Return, backsliding children!
    I will heal your backsliding.”
        “Yes, we will come to You
        for You are Adonai Eloheinu.
23 Surely help from the hills is a delusion—
        the commotion of the mountains!
    Surely in Adonai Eloheinu
        is the salvation of Israel.
24 But the shame has consumed
    the labor of our fathers since our youth—
    their flocks and their herds,
        their sons and their 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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