A Call to Repentance
(Jeremiah 3:11–25; Zechariah 1:1–6)

1Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.

2Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips.

3Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.

A Promise of God’s Blessing

4I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.

5I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall blossom as the lily and strike his roots as Lebanon.

6His sprouts shall go, and his strength shall be as the olive tree, and the odor to him as Lebanon.

7They sitting in his shadow shall turn back; they shall live upon the grain, and they shall blossom as the vine: his remembrance as the wine of Lebanon.

8Ephraim: What to me yet to images? I humbled, and I will regard him: I as the green cypress From me thy fruit was found.

9Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.