⁴ “In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together^(A)
    will go in tears^(B) to seek^(C) the Lord their God.

⁵ They will ask the way^(A) to Zion
    and turn their faces toward it.
They will come^(B) and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant^(C)
    that will not be forgotten.

¹⁴ For I will be like a lion^(A) to Ephraim,
    like a great lion to Judah.
I will tear them to pieces^(B) and go away;
    I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them.^(C)

⁴ “I will heal^(A) their waywardness^(B)
    and love them freely,^(C)
    for my anger has turned away^(D) from them.