“Restrain your voice from weeping
    and your eyes from tears,^(A)
for your work will be rewarded,^(B)”
declares the Lord.
    “They will return^(C) from the land of the enemy.
¹⁷ So there is hope^(D) for your descendants,”
declares the Lord.
    “Your children^(E) will return to their own land.

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