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.