“‘If you return!
O Israel!’
Says Yahweh.
‘If you return to me!
If you remove your abominations
From my presence!
If you do not waver!
If you swear!
‘As Yahweh lives!’
In truth,
In justice,
In uprightness,
Then nations shall be blessed
By him.
They shall boast
By him.’”
Would Israel return to Yahweh? Yahweh sets down some conditions. They would have to remove their abomination idol statues from his presence. They would have to not waver. They had to swear that Yahweh lives. If this was done in truth, justice, and uprightness, then the nations would be blessed by him. Then they could boast in Yahweh.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 