Jeremiah 4:1-3

Expanded Bible

4 “If you ·will [want to] return, Israel,
    then return to me,” says the Lord.
“If you will ·throw away [turn from] your abominations [^Cthe idols],
    then ·don’t wander away from me [no longer go astray].
² If you say when you ·make a promise [swear],
    ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’
    and you can say it in a truthful, ·honest [just], and ·right [righteous] way,
then the nations will be blessed by him,
    and they will ·praise him for what he has done [boast in him].”
³ This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:

“Plow your unplowed fields [^Ca metaphor for changing their spiritual condition],
    and don’t ·plant seeds [sow] among thorns.