1. “If you will come back, Israel,then come back to me,” says the Lord.“Throw away your idols that I hate.Don’t wander away from me.
2. Then you may say when you make a promise,‘As surely as the Lord lives.’And you can say it in a truthful, honest and right way.Then the nations will be blessed by the Lord.And they will praise the Lord for what he has done.”
3. This is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:“Plow your unplowed fields.Don’t plant seeds among the thorns.