steps on the path out of idolatrous relationships and the blessings that come after we have repented: Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, “Take away all iniquity. … We will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. …” And afterward this is what God will do: I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. … They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow;