14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; d“for I am married to you. I will take you, eone from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to fZion. 15 And I will give you gshepherds according to My heart, who will hfeed you with knowledge and understanding.

16 “Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and iincreased in the land in those days,” says the Lord, “that they will say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ jIt shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore.

17 “At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, kto the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. No more shall they lfollow 3the dictates of their evil hearts.

18 “In those days mthe house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of nthe north to othe land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.

19 “But I said:

‘How can I put you among the children

And give you pa pleasant land,

A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?’

“And I said:

‘You shall call Me, q“My Father,”

And not turn away from Me.’

20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her 4husband,

So rhave you dealt treacherously with Me,

O house of Israel,” says the Lord.