19 For after (A)I had turned away, I relented,
    and after I was instructed, (B)I struck my thigh;
(C)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 (D)Is Ephraim my dear son?
    (E)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
    I do remember him still.
(F)Therefore my heart[a] yearns for him;
    I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.

21 (G)“Set up road markers for yourself;
    make yourself guideposts;
(H)consider well the highway,
    (I)the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
    return to these your cities.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels

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