Jeremiah 3:19-21

The Voice

¹⁹     “I thought to Myself how much I wanted to welcome you home as children
        and bless you with a good land and a future to be envied by all the world.
    I hoped for the day when you would call Me ‘My Father,’
        and no longer pull away from Me and My ways.
²⁰     But just as an unfaithful wife betrays her husband,
        so have you betrayed Me, O house of Israel.”

²¹ A sound now echoes from the deserted hills
    where Israel betrayed her God.
It is the sound of bitter tears mixed with the prayers
    of the lost and rebellious people of Israel
    who have forgotten the Eternal, their True God.