18In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance
of all the nations!’
I thought you would call Me ‘Father’
and never turn away from following Me.
20But as a woman may betray her husband,
so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,”
21A voice is heard on the barren heights,
the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,
because they have perverted their ways
and forgotten the LORD their God.
22“Return, O faithless children,
and I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Here we are. We come to You,
for You are the LORD our God.
23Surely deception comes from the hills,
and commotion from the mountains.
Surely the salvation of Israel
is in the LORD our God.
— Jeremiah 3:18-23