Jeremiah 3:12-22

12Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, ‘1Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord; ‘2I will not 3look at you in anger. For I am 4gracious,’ declares the Lord; ‘I will not be angry forever.13Only 56acknowledge your wrongdoing, That you have revolted against the Lord your God, And have 7scattered your 8favors to the strangers 9under every leafy tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.14‘Return, you 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 11bring you to Zion.’

15“Then I will give you 12shepherds 13after My own heart, who will 14feed you knowledge and understanding. 16And it shall be in those days when you become numerous and are fruitful 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 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 assemble at it, at Jerusalem, for the 18name of the Lord; and they will no longer 19follow 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.’20However, as a woman treacherously leaves her lover, So you have 26dealt treacherously with Me, House of Israel,” declares the Lord.

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