15 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“A voice is heard in (B)Ramah,
    lamentation and bitter weeping.
(C)Rachel is weeping for her children;
    she refuses to be comforted for her children,
    (D)because they are no more.”

16 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep your voice from weeping,
    and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,
declares the Lord,
    and (E)they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
17 (F)There is hope for your future,
declares the Lord,
    and your children shall come back to their own country.
18 I have heard (G)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
    like an untrained calf;
(H)bring me back that I may be restored,
    for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (I)I had turned away, I relented,
    and after I was instructed, (J)I struck my thigh;
(K)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 (L)Is Ephraim my dear son?
    (M)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
    I do remember him still.
(N)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
    I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels

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