rsv Jeremiah:3:21-25
rsv@Jeremiah:3:21 @ A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
rsv@Jeremiah:3:22 @ "Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
rsv@Jeremiah:3:23 @ Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
rsv@Jeremiah:3:24 @ "But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
rsv@Jeremiah:3:25 @ Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."