Weeping on the heights

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

22“Return, O faithless children; I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are; we have come to you, for you are Yahweh our God.

23Surely the noisy worship on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.

24But since our youth, the shameful idol has devoured the fruit of our fathers’ labor—their flocks and herds, their sons and 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.”