13aOnly acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the Lord your God, And have bscattered your charms To calien deities dunder every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.
14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; a“for I am married to you. I will take you, bone from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to cZion.
15 And I will give you ashepherds according to My heart, who will bfeed you with knowledge and understanding.
16 “Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and aincreased in the land in those days,” says the Lord, “that they will say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ bIt shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore.
17 “At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, ato the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. No more shall they bfollow the dictates of their evil hearts.
18 “In those days athe house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of bthe north to cthe land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.
19 “But I said: ‘How can I put you among the children And give you aa pleasant land, A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?’ “And I said: ‘You shall call Me, b“My Father,” And not turn away from Me.’
20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her1 husband, So ahave you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel,” says the Lord.
I win give you pastors according to mine heart - The pastor means either the king or the prophet; and the pastors here promised may be either kings or prophets, or both. These shall be according to God' s own heart; they shall be of his own choosing and shall be qualified by himself: and in consequence they shall feed the people with knowledge, deah that Divine truth concerning the true God and the best interests of man, which was essentially necessary to their salvation; and understanding haskeil , the full interpretation of every point, that in receiving the truth they might become wise, holy, and happy.
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