17 At that time they will call Jerusalem “the Lord’s throne.” All nations will gather together there to honor the name of the Lord at Jerusalem, and they will no longer stubbornly follow their wicked heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah will walk alongside the house of Israel; together they will come from the land of the north to the land which I gave your ancestors as a heritage.
19 I thought:How I would like to make you my children!So I gave you a pleasant land,the most beautiful heritage among the nations!You would call me, “My Father,” I thought,and you would never turn away from me.
20 But like a woman faithless to her lover,thus have you been faithless to me,house of Israel—oracle of the Lord.
21 A cry is heard on the heights!the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children,Because they have perverted their way,they have forgotten the Lord, their God.
22 Return, rebellious children!I will heal your rebellions.“Here we are! We belong to you,for you are the Lord, our God.
23 Deceptive indeed are the hills,the mountains, clamorous;Only in the Lord our Godis Israel’s salvation.