Break up the hard ground

1If you return, O Israel, declares Yahweh, to me you should return; if you remove your detestable things from before me and do not wander about,

2and if you swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will bless themselves in him, and in him they will boast.

3For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up for yourselves unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.

4Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath go out like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.