I will go and return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In their affliction they will seek Me earnestly.

O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

And many people shall go and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion the Law shall go forth, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Return, O backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to You; for You are Jehovah our God.

In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping. They shall go and seek Jehovah their God.

Let us search out and examine our ways, and return to Jehovah.

Let us lift up our heart and hands to the Mighty God in Heaven.

Gather yourselves, yes gather together, O nation not desired;

Therefore, I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

For I am to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, tear and go away; I take away, and no one rescues.

Now I am like a lion to them; I will watch by the way like a leopard.

O Israel, you are destroyed, but your help is in Me.

See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; nor is there any who can deliver out of My hand.

Jehovah kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

For He bruises, but He binds up; He shatters, but His hands heal.

When He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? It might be against a nation or mankind altogether,

O Jehovah, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

You shall also defile the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away like a menstruous cloth. You shall say to them, Get away!

For thus says Jehovah, Your break is incurable, and your wound is making you sick.

They come to fight with the Chaldeans, only to fill them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in My anger and in My fury, for all whose evil I have hidden My face from this city.

for though He causes grief, yet He will have compassion according to the multitude of His kindness.

For He does not wish to afflict nor grieve the sons of men;