<p class="poetry">&#8220;If you, Israel, want to come back,&#8221; says the <sc>Lord,sc>p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;if you want to come back to me<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you must get those disgusting idols<n id="2" /> out of my sightp> <p class="poetry">and must no longer go astray.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Because of this, the <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;You must repent of such words and thoughts!p> <p class="poetry">If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless,p> <p class="poetry">I will again allow you to be my spokesman.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They must become as you have been.p> <p class="poetry">You must not become like them.<n id="4" />p>

Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me.<n id="1" /> But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did.<n id="2" />