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19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented;
and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh:
I was ashamed, yea, even confounded,
because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son?
is he a pleasant child?
for since I spake against him,
I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my bowels are troubled for him;
I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps:
set thine heart toward the highway,
even the way which thou wentest:
turn again, O virgin of Israel,
turn again to these thy cities.

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