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Yahweh declares,

“If you come back, Israel,
    if you come back to me,
    if you take your disgusting idols out of my sight
    and you don’t wander away from me,
if you take the oath, “As Yahweh lives . . .”
    in an honest, fair, and right way,
    then the nations will be blessed,
    and they will be honored by me.”

The Lord Will Bring Destruction on Judah from the North

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

Plow your unplowed fields,
    and don’t plant 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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