Jeremiah 31:18-20

Authorized (King James) Version

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus;
Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised,
as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke:
turn thou me, and I shall be turned;
for thou art the Lord my God.
¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned, I repented;
and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh:
I was ashamed, yea, even confounded,
because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son?
is he a pleasant child?
for since I spake against him,
I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my bowels are troubled for him;
I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.