12 Go and call out these words toward the north and say,
‘aReturn, faithless Israel,’ declares Yahweh;
‘bI will not look upon you in anger.
For I am cOne of lovingkindness,’ declares Yahweh;
‘I will not be angry forever.
13 Only aacknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against Yahweh your God
And have bscattered your ways of harlotry to the strangers cunder every green tree,
And you have not listened to My voice,’ declares Yahweh.
14 ‘Return, O faithless sons,’ declares Yahweh;
‘For I am a amaster to you,
And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,
And bI will bring you to Zion.’
15 “Then I will give you ashepherds after My own heart, who will bshepherd you on knowledge and understanding. 16 It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and fruitful in the land,” declares Yahweh, “they will ano longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of Yahweh.’ And it will not come upon the heart, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again. 17 At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The aThrone of Yahweh,’ and ball the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the cname of Yahweh; nor will they dwalk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart. 18 aIn those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together bfrom the land of the north to the cland that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.
19 “Then I said,
‘How I would set you among My sons
And give you a pleasant land,
The most abeautiful inheritance of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, b“My Father,”
And not turn away from following Me.’