Jeremiah 3:12-18 ▼

12 Go and proclaim these words to the north, and say: ‘Return, O backsliding Israel!’ A declaration of YHWH. ‘I will not cause My face to fall on you?, for I am merciful,’ a declaration of YHWH. ‘I will not keep it forever.

13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that against YHWH your God you have transgressed, and you have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you? have not listened to My voice!’” A declaration of YHWH.

14 “Return, backsliding sons!” A declaration of YHWH. “For I am married to you?, and I will take you? one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you? to Zion.

15 And I will give to you? shepherds according to My heart, and they will shepherd you? with knowledge and understanding.”

16 “And it will come to pass, when you? have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,” says YHWH, “That they will not say anymore, ‘The ark of the covenant of YHWH, and it shall not come upon the heart, and they will not remember it, and they will not attend to it—and another will not be made.

17 At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Throne of YHWH,’ and all the nations will be gathered to her, to the name of YHWH, to Jerusalem, and they will not go anymore after the stubborness of their evil hearts.

18 In those days the house of Judah will walk alongside the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your? fathers.