Jeremiah 3:12-18

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¹²Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,

‘Return, faithless Israel,
                says the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
    for I am merciful,
                says the Lord;
I will not be angry for ever.
¹³Only acknowledge your guilt,
    that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree,
    and that you have not obeyed my voice,
                says the Lord.
¹⁴Return, O faithless children,
                says the Lord;
    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.

¹⁵“‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. ¹⁶And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It shall not come to mind, or be remembered, or missed; it shall not be made again. ¹⁷At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart. ¹⁸In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.

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