Jeremiah 4:1-2
Good News Translation
A Call to Repentance
4 The Lord says, “People of Israel, if you want to turn, then turn back to me. If you are faithful to me and remove the idols I hate, 2 it will be right for you to swear by my name. Then[a] all the nations will ask me to bless them, and they will praise me.”
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- Jeremiah 4:2 it will be right … name. Then; or and if you swear by my name and are truthful, just, and righteous, then.
Jeremiah 4:1-2
New International Version
4 “If you, Israel, will return,(A)
then return to me,”
declares the Lord.
“If you put your detestable idols(B) out of my sight
and no longer go astray,
2 and if in a truthful, just and righteous way
you swear,(C) ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’(D)
then the nations will invoke blessings(E) by him
and in him they will boast.(F)”
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