3 19 " 'I thought how I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beauteous of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me. 3 20 Surely, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says Yahweh.' "
3 21 A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God. 3 22 "Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you; for you are Yahweh our God. 3 23 Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.
3 24 "But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers laboured, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 3 25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonour cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God."