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18 In those days the house of Judah will walk along with the house of Israel and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave as an inheritance to your ancestors.[a]

19 Then I thought, ‘How I would set you among the children,
    and I would give you a land of desire,
an inheritance of the glory of the hosts of nations.’
And I thought, ‘You would call me, “My father,”
    and you would not turn back from behind[b] me.’
20 However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover,
    so you have dealt treacherously with me,
O house of Israel,” declares[c] Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:18 Or “fathers”
  2. Jeremiah 3:19 Or “following”
  3. Jeremiah 3:20 Literally “a declaration of”