Jeremiah 3:19-21

International Children’s Bible

‘How happy I would be to treat you as sons!
    I would be glad to give you a pleasant land.
    It’s a land more beautiful than that of any other nation.’
I thought you would call me ‘Father’
    and not turn away from me.
²⁰ But like a woman who is unfaithful to her husband,
    family of Israel, you have been unfaithful to me,” says the Lord.

²¹ You can hear crying on the bare hilltops.
    The people of Israel are crying and praying for mercy.
They have become very evil.
    They have forgotten the Lord their God.