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Chapter 4

If you return, O Israel, says the Lord,
    if you return to me,
if you banish your loathsome idols from my sight
    and do not go astray,
and if you swear, “As the Lord lives!”
    in truth, in justice, and in uprightness,
then the nations will bless themselves by him
    and will glory in him.

For these are the words of the Lord to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:

Break up your unplowed ground
    and do not sow among thorns.

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“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,
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)

This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:

“Break up your unplowed ground(G)
    and do not sow among thorns.(H)

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