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22 
“Return, O faithless sons,” [says the Lord],
“I will heal your unfaithfulness.”
[They answer] “Behold, we come to You,
For You are the Lord our God.
23 
“Truly, [the hope of salvation from] the hill [where idols are worshiped] is a deception,
A tumult and noisy multitude on the mountains;
Truly in the Lord our God
Is the salvation of Israel.

24 “But the shameful act [of idolatry] has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth—their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor and humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

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22 “Return, you faithless sons,
(A)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to You;
For You are the Lord our God.
23 Certainly (B)the hills are a deception,
[a]Commotion on the mountains.
Certainly in the (C)Lord our God
Is the salvation of Israel.

24 “But (D)the shame has consumed the product of our fathers’ labor since our youth—their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us lie down in our (E)shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, (F)from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:23 I.e., from idolatrous rituals