‘How I would set you among ^[a]My sons
And give you a pleasant land,
The most ^(A)beautiful inheritance of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, ^(B)“My Father,”
And not turn away from following Me.’

^9 (A)With weeping they will come,
And by supplication I will lead them;
I will make them walk by ^(B)streams of waters,
On a straight path in which they will ^(C)not stumble;
For I am a ^(D)father to Israel,
And Ephraim is ^(E)My firstborn.”