Jeremiah 3:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt cease to walk after me.

²⁰ But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.

²¹ A voice was heard in the highways, weeping and howling of the children of Israel: because they have made their way wicked, they have forgotten the Lord their God.