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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 the LORD their God.
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"'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.
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Surely, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.'"
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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 the LORD their God.
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"Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
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Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
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