22 (A)“Return, O faithless sons;
    (B)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.
23 Truly (C)the hills are a delusion,
    the orgies[a] on the mountains.
(D)Truly in the Lord our God
    is the salvation of Israel.

24 “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 (E)Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For (F)we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

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  1. Jeremiah 3:23 Hebrew commotion

22 Return, O apostate[a] children,
    I will heal your backsliding.
‘Look, we come to you,
    for you are Yahweh our God.
23 Surely, an illusion comes from the hills,
    the turmoil on the mountains.
Surely, in Yahweh our God
    is the salvation of Israel.
24 But the shameful thing has devoured
    the labor of our ancestors[b] from our youth,
their flocks, and their cattle,
    their sons and their daughters.
25 Let us lie down in our shame,
    and let our disgrace cover us.
For against Yahweh our God we have sinned,
    we and our ancestors,[c]
from our youth and until this day.
    and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:22 Or “unfaithful”
  2. Jeremiah 3:24 Or “fathers”
  3. Jeremiah 3:25 Or “fathers”