Jeremiah 31:17-19

The Voice

¹⁷     There is hope for your future, I promise.
        Your children will come home to their own land.
¹⁸     I have heard the cries of Ephraim, groaning, “You have disciplined me.
        I was like an unruly calf, but You disciplined me.
    Bring me back, so I can return home,
        for You are my God, the Eternal.
¹⁹     After I had turned away from You, I repented.
        I turned back toward You when I understood what I had done;
    I slapped my thigh in shame and regret
        for the disgraceful things I did when I was young.”