Berean Standard Bible

Jeremiah 3:12-22

12Go, proclaim this message toward the north:

‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD.‘I will no longer look on you with anger,for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD.‘I will not be angry forever.13Only acknowledge your guilt,that you have rebelled against the LORD your God.You have scattered your favors to foreign godsunder every green treeand have not obeyed My voice,’”declares the LORD.

14“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion. 15Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

16“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

17At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. 18In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.

19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sonsand give you a desirable land,the most beautiful inheritanceof all the nations!’I thought you would call Me ‘Father’and never turn away from following Me.20But as a woman may betray her husband,so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,”declares the LORD.21A voice is heard on the barren heights,the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,because they have perverted their waysand forgotten the LORD their God.

22“Return, O faithless children,and I will heal your faithlessness.”

“Here we are. We come to You,for You are the LORD our God.

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