Jeremiah 3:19-25

English Standard Version

¹⁹ “‘I said,
    How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
    a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would ^(A)call me, My Father,
    and would not turn from following me.
^20 (B)Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,
    so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.’”

²¹ A voice on the ^(C)bare heights is heard,
    ^(D)the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons
because they have perverted their way;
    they have forgotten the Lord their God.
^22 (E)“Return, O faithless sons;
    ^(F)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.
²³ Truly ^(G)the hills are a delusion,
    the orgies^[a] on the mountains.
^(H)Truly in the Lord our God
    is the salvation of Israel.