Jeremiah 3:12-22

12Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, ‘1Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord; ‘2I will not 3look upon you in anger. For I am 4gracious,’ declares the Lord; ‘I will not be angry forever.13Only 56acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the Lord your God And have 7scattered your 8favors to the strangers 9under 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 10master to you, And I will take you one from a city and two from a family, And 11I will bring you to Zion.’

15“Then I will give you 12shepherds after My own heart, who will 13feed 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 14no 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 15Throne of the Lord,’ and 16all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the 17name of the Lord; nor will they 18walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart. 1819In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together 20from the land of the north to the 21land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.

19“Then I said, ‘How I would set you among 22My sons And give you a pleasant land, The most 23beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ And I said, ‘You shall call Me, 24My Father, And not turn away from following Me.’20Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her 25lover, So you have 26dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” declares the Lord.

21A voice is heard on the 27bare heights, The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel; Because they have perverted their way, They have 28forgotten the Lord their God.22“Return, O faithless sons, 29I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to You; For You are the Lord our God.