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If they do, I will make their names remembered within my Temple and its walls. It will be better for them than children. I will give them a name that will last forever, that will never be forgotten.

"Come here, you magicians! Come here, you children of prostitutes and those who take part in adultery!

You have sexual relations under every green tree to worship your gods. You kill children in the ravines and sacrifice them in the rocky places.

The Lord says, "This is my agreement with these people: My Spirit and my words that I give you will never leave you or your children or your grandchildren, now and forever."

People in faraway lands are waiting for me. The great trading ships will come first, bringing your children from faraway lands, and with them silver and gold. This will honor the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, who does wonderful things for you.

Everyone in all nations will know the children of my people, and their children will be known among the nations. Anyone who sees them will know that they are people the Lord has blessed."

As a young man marries a woman, so your children will marry your land. As a man rejoices over his new wife, so your God will rejoice over you.

He said, "These are my people; my children will not lie to me." So he saved them.

You are our father. Abraham doesn't know we are his children, and Israel doesn't recognize us. Lord , you are our father. You are called "the one who has always saved us."

I will leave some of the children of Jacob, and some of the people of Judah will receive my mountain. I will choose the people who will live there; my servants will live there.

They will never again work for nothing. They will never again give birth to children who die young. All my people will be blessed by the Lord ; they and their children will be blessed.

No one has ever heard of that happening; no one has ever seen that happen. In the same way no one ever saw a country begin in one day; no one has ever heard of a new nation beginning in one moment. But Jerusalem will give birth to her children just as soon as she feels the birth pains.

"I will make new heavens and the new earth, which will last forever," says the Lord . "In the same way, your names and your children will always be with me.

"Come back to me, you unfaithful children," says the Lord , "because I am your master. I will take one person from every city and two from every family group, and I will bring you to Jerusalem.

"I, the Lord , said, ‘How happy I would be to treat you as my own children and give you a pleasant land, a land more beautiful than that of any other nation.' I thought you would call me ‘My Father' and not turn away from me.

"Come back to me, you unfaithful children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful." "Yes, we will come to you, because you are the Lord our God.

The Lord says, "My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are stupid children; they don't understand. They are skillful at doing evil, but they don't know how to do good."

The Lord said, "Tell me why I should forgive you. Your children have left me and have made promises to idols that are not gods at all. I gave your children everything they needed, but they still were like an unfaithful wife to me. They spent much time in houses of prostitutes.

But I am full of the anger of the Lord , and I am tired of holding it in. "Pour out my anger on the children who play in the street and on the young men gathered together. A husband and his wife will both be caught in his anger, as will the very old.

The children gather wood, and the fathers use the wood to make a fire. The women make the dough for cakes of bread, and they offer them to the Queen Goddess. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to make me angry.