Jeremiah 3  English Standard Version Anglicised

3 ^(A)“If^[a] a man divorces his wife
    and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
    will he return to her?
^(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
^(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
    and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
² Lift up your eyes to ^(D)the bare heights, and see!
    Where have you not been ravished?
^(E)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
    like an Arab in the wilderness.
^(F)You have polluted the land
    with your vile whoredom.
^3 (G)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
    and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have ^(H)the forehead of a whore;
    you refuse to be ashamed.
⁴ Have you not just now ^(I)called to me,
    ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
^5 (J)will he be angry for ever,
    will he be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken,
    but you have done all the evil that you could.”

^(W)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
    for ^(X)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
^(Y)I will not be angry for ever.
^13 (Z)Only acknowledge your guilt,
    that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favours among foreigners under ^(AA)every green tree,
    and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
^14 (AB)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
    ^(AC)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
    and I will bring you to Zion.

¹⁹ “‘I said,
    How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
    a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would ^(AK)call me, My Father,
    and would not turn from following me.
^20 (AL)Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,
    so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.’”
²¹ A voice on the ^(AM)bare heights is heard,
    ^(AN)the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons
because they have perverted their way;
    they have forgotten the Lord their God.
^22 (AO)“Return, O faithless sons;
    ^(AP)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.
²³ Truly ^(AQ)the hills are a delusion,
    the orgies^[b] on the mountains.
^(AR)Truly in the Lord our God
    is the salvation of Israel.