Jeremiah prophesies to the north, to faithless Israel, from Judah:
- A voice on the bare heights is heard,
- the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons
- because they have perverted their way;
- they have forgotten the Lord their God.
- “Return, O faithless sons;
- I will heal your faithlessness.”
- “Behold, we come to you,
- for you are the Lord our God.
- Truly the hills are a delusion,
- the orgies on the mountains.
- Truly in the Lord our God
- is the salvation of Israel.
(Jeremiah 3:21-23)