4 If you return, O Israel,” declares^[a] Yahweh,
    “you return to me.
And if you remove your abominations from my presence,^[b]
    and you do not wander,
² and you swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’^[c]
    in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,
then nations will be blessed by him,
    and in him they will boast.”
³ For thus says Yahweh
    to the men^[d] of Judah and to Jerusalem,
“Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil,
    and you must not sow among thornbushes.