You will be a majestic crown in the hand of the Lord, a royal turban in the hand of your God.

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say, ‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

Tell them that the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.

Charge them to give their masters a message from me. Tell them, ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says to give your masters this message.

“The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says to all those he sent into exile to Babylon from Jerusalem,

Yes, a time is coming when watchmen will call out on the mountains of Ephraim, “Come! Let us go to Zion to worship the Lord our God!”’”

For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, “Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”’

So the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘Jonadab son of Rechab will never lack a male descendant to serve me.’”

He will demolish the sacred pillars in the temple of the sun in Egypt and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.”’”

These were the living creatures which I saw at the Kebar River underneath the God of Israel; I knew that they were cherubim.

so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”

We have not obeyed the LORD our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

“So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.

Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; because a spirit of idolatry controls their heart, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him!

“I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.

Seek good and not evil so you can live! Then the Lord, the God who commands armies, just might be with you, as you claim he is.

I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.