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19 I thought: 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 will call Me, my Father, and never turn away from Me.
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19 "I myself said, " 'How gladly would I treat you like sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.' I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.
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20 However, as a woman may betray her lover, so you have betrayed Me, house of Israel. [This is] the Lord's declaration.
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20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD.
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21 A sound is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, for they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God.
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21 A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.
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22 Return, you faithless children. I will heal your unfaithfulness. "Here we are, coming to You, for You are the Lord our God.
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22 "Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding." "Yes, we will come to you, for you are the LORD our God.
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23 Surely, falsehood comes from the hills, commotion from the mountains, but the salvation of Israel is only in the Lord our God.
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23 Surely the [idolatrous] commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
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24 From the time of our youth the shameful one has consumed what our fathers have worked for- their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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24 From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our fathers' labor-- their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
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25 Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our fathers, from the time of our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God."
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25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth till this day we have not obeyed the LORD our God."
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