Jeremiah 3:11-25

11And the Lord said to me, “1Faithless Israel has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, ‘2Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord; ‘3I will not 4look upon you in anger. For I am 5gracious,’ declares the Lord; ‘I will not be angry forever.13Only 67acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the Lord your God And have 8scattered your 9favors to the strangers 10under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.14‘Return, O faithless sons,’ declares the Lord; ‘For I am a 11master to you, And I will take you one from a city and two from a family, And 12I will bring you to Zion.’

15“Then I will give you 13shepherds after My own heart, who will 14feed you on knowledge and understanding. 16It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land,” declares the Lord, “they will 15no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again. 17At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The 16Throne of the Lord,’ and 17all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the 18name of the Lord; nor will they 19walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart. 1820In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together 21from the land of the north to the 22land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.

19“Then I said, ‘How I would set you among 23My sons And give you a pleasant land, The most 24beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ And I said, ‘You shall call Me, 25My Father, And not turn away from following Me.’20Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her 26lover, So you have 27dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” declares the Lord.

21A voice is heard on the 28bare heights, The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel; Because they have perverted their way, They have 29forgotten the Lord their God.22“Return, O faithless sons, 30I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to You; For You are the Lord our God.23Surely, 31the hills are a deception, A tumult on the mountains. Surely in the 32Lord our God Is the salvation of Israel.

24“But 33the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25Let us lie down in our 34shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, 35from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”