¹ In the first^◦ year of^◦ Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head on his bed; then he wrote the dream, the sum of the words that he said.

¹ They say, If a man^◦ send·​·away his wife, and she go^◦ away from being with^◦ him, and be for another man^◦, shall he still return unto her? Shall not this^◦ land being contaminated be·​·contaminated? And thou^◦ hast committed·​·harlotry with many companions, and would return to Me, says^◦ Jehovah.

² Lift thine eyes on the slopes, and see where^◦ thou hast not been ravished. On the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast·​·contaminated the land with thy harlotry and with thine evil.

³ And the raindrops have been withheld, and there has been no^◦ later·​·rain; and there was to thee the forehead of a woman, a harlot, thou didst refuse to be humiliated.

⁴ Wilt thou not from now on call to Me, My Father, Thou^◦ art the leader of my youth?

⁵ Will He bear·​·a·​·grudge to eternity, will He keep it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evils as thou wast·​·able.

⁶ And Jehovah said to^▵ me in the days of Josiah^◦ the king, Hast thou seen what backturned Israel has done? She^◦ has gone^◦ upon every lofty mountain and under every green tree, and has committed·​·harlotry there.

⁷ And I said after she had done all these things, Return thou to^▵ Me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah^* saw,

⁸ and I saw, when^◦, on·​·account·​·of all the causes^◦ by which backturning Israel committed·​·adultery, that I sent· her ·away, and gave to^▵ her a letter of divorce. But her treacherous sister Judah feared not, and she, even she^◦, went and committed·​·harlotry.

⁹ And it was, from the voice of her harlotry, that she contaminated the land, and committed·​·adultery with the stone and with the wood.

¹⁰ And even with all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to^▵ Me with all her heart, but^◦ falsely, says^◦ Jehovah.

¹¹ And Jehovah said to^▵ me, Backturning Israel has justified her soul more than treacherous Judah.

¹² Go^◦ and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backturning Israel, says^◦ Jehovah; I will not cause My face to fall upon^◦ you; for I am merciful, says^◦ Jehovah, I^◦ will not bear·​·a·​·grudge to eternity.

¹³ Only^▵ know thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against^◦ Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered^◦ thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says^◦ Jehovah.

¹⁴ Return, O back-turning sons, says^◦ Jehovah; for I^▵ am married to 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 shepherd you with knowledge and intelligence.

¹⁶ And it shall be, when^◦ you be multiplied and made·​·fruitful in the land, in those^◦ days, says^◦ Jehovah, they shall say no^◦ more^◦, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither shall it come to heart; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any·​·more.

¹⁷ At that^◦ time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered·​·together^◦ to^▵ her, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem; and they shall not go any·​·more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

¹⁸ In those^◦ days the house of Judah shall walk^◦ with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out·​·of the land of the north to the land that I have given·​·for·​·an·​·inheritance unto your fathers.

¹⁹ But I^▵ said, How^◦ shall I put thee among^◦ the sons, and give thee a desirable land, an elegant heritage of the armies of nations? And I said, Thou shalt call Me, My Father; and shalt not turn·​·back from after Me.

²⁰ Surely, as a wife acts·​·treacherously with her companion, so have you acted·​·treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, says^◦ Jehovah.

²¹ A voice was heard on the slopes, weeping and supplications^◦ of the sons of Israel; for they have turned· their way ·upside·​·down, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

²² Return, ye back-turning sons; I will heal your backturnings. Behold, we come^◦ unto Thee; for Thou^◦ art Jehovah our God.

²³ Surely for the falsity from the hills is the noise of mountains; surely in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

²⁴ And shame has devoured the toil of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

²⁵ We lie in our shame, and our humiliation covers us; for we have sinned against^▵ Jehovah our God, we^◦ and our fathers, from our youth even^◦ until this day, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.