20. Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,declares the Lord.’”
21. A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel’s sonsbecause they have perverted their way;they have forgotten the Lord their God.
22. “Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.”“Behold, we come to you,for you are the Lord our God.
23. Truly the hills are a delusion,the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the Lord our Godis the salvation of Israel.
24. “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.