Jeremiah 3:21
King James Version
“A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.”
Context
18In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
20Surely a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
21A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou the LORD our God.
23Truly in vain from the hills, the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God the salvation of Israel.
24For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.