Jeremiah 3:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁹ I thought
    how I would set you among my children,
and give you a pleasant land,
    the most beautiful heritage of all the nations.
And I thought you would call me, My Father,
    and would not turn from following me.
²⁰ Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband,
    so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel,
says the Lord.

²¹ A voice on the bare heights^[a] is heard,
    the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children,
because they have perverted their way,
    they have forgotten the Lord their God: