Jeremiah 3:18-23

18In those days the house of Judah will join with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land I have given your ancestors to inherit.’”

19I thought, “How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.” I thought, “You will call me ‘My Father’ and never turn away from me.”

20However, as a woman may betray her lover, so you have betrayed me, house of Israel. This is the Lord’s declaration.

21A sound is heard on the barren heights: the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, for they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God.

22Return, you faithless children. I will heal your unfaithfulness. “Here we are, coming to you, for you are the Lord our God.

23Surely, falsehood comes from the hills, commotion from the mountains, but the salvation of Israel is only in the Lord our God.