1. “If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord,“Return to Me;And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight,Then you shall not be moved.
2. And you shall swear, ‘The Lord lives,’In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;The nations shall bless themselves in Him,And in Him they shall glory.”
3. For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:“Break up your fallow ground,And do not sow among thorns.
4. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,And take away the foreskins of your hearts,You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,Lest My fury come forth like fire,And burn so that no one can quench it,Because of the evil of your doings.”
5. Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:“Blow the trumpet in the land;Cry, ‘Gather together,’And say, ‘Assemble yourselves,And let us go into the fortified cities.’