Septuagint: Greek Old Testament (Vatican Codex Edition)

3 And thou hadst many shepherds as a stumbling block to thyself; the look of a harlot became thine, thou hast become shameless toward all.

4 Hast thou not called me as a house, and father, and the guide of thy virginity?

5 Will he remain forever, or will he be guarded to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken, and done these evil things, and thou hast prevailed.

6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what the dwelling-place of Israel has done to me? They went upon every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and they committed fornication there.

7 And I said, after she has done all these things, Return to me; and she did not return; and the treacherous Judah saw her unfaithfulness.

8 And I saw, that for all the things in which the dwelling-place of Israel committed adultery, I sent her away, and gave her a biblion apostasiou bill of divorce into her hands; and the treacherous Judah did not fear, but went and she also committed fornication.

9 And her fornication became as nothing, and she committed adultery with the wood and the stone.

10 And in all these things the treacherous Judah did not turn to me with all her heart, but in falsehood.

11 And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified his soul more than the treacherous Judah.

12 Go and read these words toward the North, and say, Return to me, O dwelling-place of Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not fasten my countenance upon you, for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry with you forever.

13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast been impious against the Lord thy God, and hast poured out thy ways to strangers under every shady tree, but to my voice thou hast not listened, saith the Lord.

14 Return, O apostate children, saith the Lord, because I will rule over you, and I will take you one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion,

15 And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you feeding with knowledge.

16 And it shall be when you are multiplied, and increased upon the earth, saith the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The kibotos diathekes Ark of the Covenant of the Holy One of Israel; it shall not come up upon the heart, it shall not be named, nor shall it be visited, and it shall not be made anymore.

17 In those days, and at that time, they shall call Jerusalem, The Throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, and they shall not walk anymore after the imaginations of their own wicked heart.

18 In those days