18 “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:
    ‘You disciplined(A) me like an unruly calf,(B)
    and I have been disciplined.
Restore(C) me, and I will return,
    because you are the Lord my God.

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18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.

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Restore(A) us,(B) O God;
    make your face shine on us,
    that we may be saved.(C)

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Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

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They will come with weeping;(A)
    they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead(B) them beside streams of water(C)
    on a level(D) path where they will not stumble,
because I am Israel’s father,(E)
    and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

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They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

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21 A cry is heard on the barren heights,(A)
    the weeping(B) and pleading of the people of Israel,
because they have perverted their ways
    and have forgotten(C) the Lord their God.

22 “Return,(D) faithless people;
    I will cure(E) you of backsliding.”(F)

“Yes, we will come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.

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21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.

22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.

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17 “Blessed is the one whom God corrects;(A)
    so do not despise the discipline(B) of the Almighty.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:17 Hebrew Shaddai; here and throughout Job

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

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19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.(A) So be earnest and repent.(B)

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19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

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26 When God raised up(A) his servant, he sent him first(B) to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

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26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

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20 So he got up and went to his father.

“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.(A)

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20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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21 Restore(A) us to yourself, Lord, that we may return;
    renew our days as of old

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21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

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27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke
    while he is young.

28 Let him sit alone in silence,(A)
    for the Lord has laid it on him.
29 Let him bury his face in the dust(B)
    there may yet be hope.(C)
30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him,(D)
    and let him be filled with disgrace.(E)

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27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

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14 Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;(A)
    save(B) me and I will be saved,
    for you are the one I praise.(C)

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14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

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13 But the people have not returned(A) to him who struck(B) them,
    nor have they sought(C) the Lord Almighty.

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13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

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12 Blessed is the one you discipline,(A) Lord,
    the one you teach(B) from your law;

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12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

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