Jeremiah 3:19-25 - True Repentance
19 "'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me. 20 But like as a woman faileth her lover, so are ye unfaithful unto me, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD.'"
21 And therefore the voice of the children of Israel was heard on every side, weeping and wailing: for they have defiled their way, and forgotten God their LORD. 22 "O ye shrinking children, turn again, saying, "Lo, we are thine, for thou art the LORD our God!" And so shall I heal your backturnings. 23 The hills fall, and all the high pride of the mountains; but the health of Israel standeth only upon God our LORD. 24 Confusion hath devoured our fathers' labour from our youth up: yea, their sheep and bullocks, their sons and daughters. 25 So do we also sleep in our confusion, and shame covereth us: for we and our fathers from our youth up unto this day have sinned against the LORD our God, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."