Jeremiah 31:17-19

Common English Bible

¹⁷ There’s hope for your future,
    declares the Lord.
        Your children will return home!

¹⁸ I hear, yes, I hear Ephraim lamenting:
    “You disciplined me,
        and I learned my lesson,
    even though I was as stubborn as a mule.
Bring me back, let me return,
    because you are the Lord my God.
¹⁹ After I turned away from you,
    I regretted it;
    I realized what I had done,
        and I have hit myself^[a]—
    I was humiliated and disgraced,
        and I have carried this disgrace
        since I was young.”