“And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’ — just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal — then they will be established among My people.”
Jeremiah 12:16 (BSB)
Context Reading
14This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them. 15But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land. 16And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’ — just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal — then they will be established among My people. 17But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”