THEY say, If a man put away his woman, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahuah.
Lift up your eyes unto the high places, and see where you have not been lien with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Araviy in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and with your wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a whore's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
Will you not from this time cry unto me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?
Will he reserve his anger forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.
Yahuah said also unto me in the days of Yo'shiyahu the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Yashar'el has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn you unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Yahudah saw it.
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Yashar'el broke wedlock I had put her away, and given her a cepher of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Yahudah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and broke wedlock with stones and with stocks.
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Yahudah has not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says Yahuah.
And Yahuah said unto me, The backsliding Yashar'el has justified herself more than treacherous Yahudah.
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Yashar'el, says Yahuah; and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says Yahuah, and I will not keep anger forever.
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahuah Elohayka, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, says Yahuah.
Turn, O backsliding children, says Yahuah; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Tsiyon:
And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahuah, they shall say no more, The Ark of the Covenant of Yahuah: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done anymore.
At that time they shall call Yerushalayim the throne of Yahuah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Yahuah, to Yerushalayim: neither shall they walk anymore after the imagination of their evil heart.
In those days the house of Yahudah shall walk with the house of Yashar'el, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My Father; and shall not turn away from me.
Surely as a woman treacherously departs from her man, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Yashar'el, says Yahuah.
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Yashar'el: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten Yahuah Elohayhem.
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto you; for you are Yahuah Elohaynu.
Truly in vain is yeshu`ah hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in Yahuah Elohaynu is the yeshu`ah of Yashar'el.
For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against Yahuah Elohaynu, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahuah Elohaynu.