Jeremiah 31:16-18

Modern English Version

Keep your voice from weeping
    and your eyes from tears;
for your work shall be rewarded,
    says the Lord,
    and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
¹⁷ There is hope for your future,
    says the Lord,
    that your children will come back to their own border.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim pleading:
    “You have chastised me,
    and I was chastised, as an untrained calf;
turn me back and I will be turned,
    for you are the Lord my God.