17. At that time, they will call Jerusalem the Lord’s throne, and all nations will gather there to honor the Lord’s name. No longer will they follow their own willful and evil hearts.
18. In those days the people of Judah and Israel will leave the north together for the land that I gave their ancestors as an inheritance.
19. I thought to myself, How wonderful it would beto treat you like childrenand give you a beautiful land,an inheritance unrivaled among the nations.And I thought, You will call me father,and you won’t turn away from me.
20. But as a woman betrays her lover,so you, people of Israel, have betrayed me,declares the Lord.