Jeremiah 3:18-20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ I thought
    how I would set you among my children,
and give you a pleasant land,
    the most beautiful heritage of all the nations.
And I thought you would call me, My Father,
    and would not turn from following me.
²⁰ Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband,
    so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel,
says the Lord.