Jeremiah 3:19-21

Lexham English Bible

¹⁹ Then I thought, ‘How I would set you among the children,
    and I would give you a land of desire,
an inheritance of the glory of the hosts of nations.’
And I thought, ‘You would call me, “My father,”
    and you would not turn back from behind^[a] me.’
²⁰ However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover,
    so you have dealt treacherously with me,
O house of Israel,” declares^[b] Yahweh.
²¹ “A voice is heard on the barren heights,
    the weeping of the pleas for mercy of the children of Israel,
because they have perverted their way,
    they have forgotten Yahweh their God.