Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD. “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
Furthermore, so that your sins may be wiped away, repent, then, and turn back! Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands for the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
