15 I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.
16 In those days, your population will greatly increase in the land. At that time,” says the Lord, “people will no longer talk about having the ark that contains the Lord’s covenant with us. They will not call it to mind, remember it, or miss it. No, that will not be done any more!
17 At that time the city of Jerusalem will be called the Lord’s throne. All nations will gather there in Jerusalem to honor the Lord’s name. They will no longer follow the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts.
18 At that time the nation of Judah and the nation of Israel will be reunited. Together they will come back from a land in the north to the land that I gave to your ancestors as a permanent possession. ”
19 “I thought to myself, ‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land,the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’I thought you would call me, ‘Father’and would never cease being loyal to me.
20 But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel,like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,”says the Lord.
21 “A noise is heard on the hilltops.It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods.Indeed they have followed sinful ways;they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God.