Jeremiah 31:17-19

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁷ ‘Yes, you will have descendants in the future.
Your children will return to their own land.’

¹⁸ ‘I have heard Israel's people when they are sad.
They say to me, “You punished us,
    and we accepted it.
You taught us to obey you,
    like a farmer teaches an ox to work for him.
So let us come back to serve you.
We are ready to return to you,
    because you are the Lord, our God.
¹⁹ After we turned away from you,
    we were sorry that we had done that.
We understood what we had done,
    and we showed that we were sad.
We were ashamed and upset,
    because of the disgusting things that we did when we were young.”