16. And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither shall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that be done any more.
17. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the thrown of the Lord: and all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of their most wicked heart.
18. In those days the house of Juda shall go to the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I gave to your fathers.
19. But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt cease to walk after me.
20. But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.
21. A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the children of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have forgotten the Lord their God.
22. Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.
23. In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
24. Confusion hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.