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.’