¹⁹ I thought to myself, How wonderful it would be
    to treat you like children
    and give you a beautiful land,
        an inheritance unrivaled among the nations.
And I thought, You will call me father,
    and you won’t turn away from me.
²⁰ But as a woman betrays her lover,
    so you, people of Israel, have betrayed me,
        declares the Lord.
²¹ A voice is heard on the well-traveled paths;^[a]
    it’s the crying and pleading of the people of Israel,
        who have lost their way
        and forgotten the Lord their God.