Jeremiah 4:1-2

New Century Version

4 “If you will return, Israel,
    then return to me,” says the Lord.
“If you will throw away your idols that I hate,
    then don’t wander away from me.
² If you say when you make a promise,
    ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’
    and you can say it in a truthful, honest, and right way,
then the nations will be blessed by him,
    and they will praise him for what he has done.”