But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me. 20But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord. 21A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the children of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have forgotten the Lord their God. 22Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God. 23In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. 24Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.