In Those Days

"In those days, at that time," declares the Lord,
"the people of Israel and the people of Judah together
will go in tears to seek the Lord their God.
They will ask the way to Zion
and turn their faces toward it.
They will come and bind themselves to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

"My people have been lost sheep;
their shepherds have led them astray
and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill
and forgot their own resting place.
Whoever found them devoured them;
their enemies said,
'We are not guilty,
for they sinned against the Lord,
their true pasture,
the Lord,
the hope of their fathers.'

(Jeremiah 50:4-7)