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20 However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover,
    so you have dealt treacherously with me,
O house of Israel,” declares[a] Yahweh.
21 “A voice is heard on the barren heights,
    the weeping of the pleas for mercy of the children of Israel,
because they have perverted their way,
    they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
22 Return, O apostate[b] children,
    I will heal your backsliding.
‘Look, we come to you,
    for you are Yahweh our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:20 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 3:22 Or “unfaithful”