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3.21 :They have forgotten the their God.


 * Return, ye backsliding children,
 * I will heal your backslidings.—
 * 'Here we are, we are come unto Thee;
 * For Thou art the our God.
 * Truly vain have proved the hills,
 * The uproar on the mountains;
 * Truly in the our God
 * Is the salvation of Israel.
 * But the shameful thing hath devoured
 * The labour of our fathers from our youth;
 * Their flocks and their herds,
 * Their sons and their daughters.
 * Let us lie down in our shame,
 * And let our confusion cover us;
 * For we have sinned against the our God,
 * We and our fathers,
 * From our youth even unto this day;
 * And we have not hearkened
 * To the voice of the our God.'


 * If thou wilt return, O Israel,
 * Saith the ,
 * Yea, return unto Me;
 * And if thou wilt put away thy detestable things out of My sight,
 * And wilt not waver;
 * And wilt swear: 'As the liveth'
 * In truth, in justice, and in righteousness;
 * Then shall the nations bless themselves by Him,
 * And in Him shall they glory.


 * For thus saith the to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem:
 * Break up for you a fallow ground,
 * And sow not among thorns.
 * Circumcise yourselves to the ,
 * And take away the foreskins of your heart,
 * Ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem;
 * Lest My fury go forth like fire,
 * And burn that none can quench it,
 * Because of the evil of your doings.


 * Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem,
 * And say: 'Blow ye the horn in the land';
 * Cry aloud and say:
 * 'Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.'
 * Set up a standard toward Zion;
 * Put yourselves under covert, stay not;
 * For I will bring evil from the north,
 * And a great destruction.
 * A lion is gone up from his thicket,
 * And a destroyer of nations
 * Is set out, gone forth from his place;
 * To make thy land desolate,
 * That thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
 * For this gird you with sackcloth,
 * Lament and wail;
 * For the fierce anger of the
 * Is not turned back from us.
 * And it shall come to pass at that day,
 * Saith the ,
 * That the heart of the king shall fail,
 * And the heart of the princes;
 * And the priests shall be astonished,
 * And the prophets shall wonder.

Then said I: 'Ah, Lord ! surely Thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.'