14. Return ye backsliding children, Rede of the Lord, for I am

your Baal,(183) and I will take you, one from a city and two from a clan, and will bring you to Ṣion. 15. And I will give you Shepherds after My heart, and they shall shepherd you with knowledge and with skill. 16. And it shall be, when ye multiply and increase in the land in those days (Rede of the Lord), they shall not again say, “The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord!” It shall not come to mind, it shall be neither remembered nor missed,(184) nor shall it be made again. 17. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord and all nations shall gather to her,(185) nor walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil hearts. 18. In those days the House of Judah shall walk with the House of Israel, that together they may come from the land of the North to the land which I gave their(186) fathers for a heritage.]

But I(187) had declared the How(?) 19 I should set thee(188) among the sons, And should give thee a land of delight, Fairest domain of the nations. And said, Thou would’st call Me Father, Nor from after Me turn. As a woman plays false to her fere,(189) 20 So to Me ye played false! [O House of Israel, Rede of the Lord.]

Hark! 21 From the clearings weeping is heard, Wailing of Israel’s sons, That they have perverted their way, Forgotten the Lord their God. Return ye oft-turning children, 22 Let me heal your back-turnings! “Here are we! to Thee we are come, Thou Lord art our God. “Surely the heights are a fraud 23 The hills and their hubbub!(190) “Alone in the Lord our God Is Israel’s safety. “The Baal hath devoured our toil 24 And our sires’ from their youth, “Their flocks and their herds, Their sons and daughters— “Lie we low in our shame, 25 Our dishonour enshroud us! “For to our God(191) have we sinned, “[We and our sires from our youth] Up to this day! “Nor have heeded the voice Of the Lord our God.”

[Israel, if thou wilt return, IV. 1 Return to Me, And thy loathly things put from thy mouth Nor stray from My face.(192) If in truth thou swear by the life of the Lord, 2 Honest and straight, Then the nations shall bless them by Him And in Him shall they glory.](193)