Jeremiah 3:22
King James VersionSource notes
“Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou the LORD our God.”
Context
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.
25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.