13. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,
14. Turn, O backsliding children,
15. And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16. And it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,
17. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil hearts.
18. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, 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.
19. But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.
20. Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel,
21. A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22. Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.