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Jeremiah kneels with families who weep on a bare hill and turn toward new light.
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Jeremiah 3:21-25

Weeping on the heights

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21A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and pleas for mercy of the sons of Israel, because they have made their way crooked; they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

22Return, O backsliding children; I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God.

23Surely, from the hills comes only falsehood, the tumult on the mountains; surely in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.

24But shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth—their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us, for we have sinned against Yahweh our God—we and our fathers—from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.

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