Jeremiah 3:15-25

15“Then I will give you 1shepherds 2after My own heart, who will 3feed 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 4no 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 5Throne of the Lord,’ and 6all the nations will assemble at it, at Jerusalem, for the 7name of the Lord; and they will no longer 8follow the stubbornness of their evil heart. 189In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together 10from the land of the north to the 11land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.

19“Then I said, ‘How I would set you among 12My sons And give you a pleasant land, The most 13beautiful inheritance of the nations!’ And I said, ‘You shall call Me, 14My Father, And not turn away from following Me.’20However, as a woman treacherously leaves her lover, So you have 15dealt treacherously with Me, House of Israel,” declares the Lord.

21A voice is heard on the 16bare heights, The weeping, the pleading of the sons of Israel. Because they have perverted their way, They have 17forgotten the Lord their God.22“Return, you faithless sons, 18I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to You; For You are the Lord our God.23Certainly 19the hills are a deception, 20Commotion on the mountains. Certainly in the 21Lord our God Is the salvation of Israel.

24“But 22the shame has consumed the product of our fathers’ labor since our youth--their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25Let us lie down in our 23shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, 24from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”