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17 So there is hope for you!” says the Lord.
    “Your children will come back to their own land.

18 “I have heard Israel moaning:
    ‘Lord, you punished me, and I have learned my lesson.
    I was like a calf that had never been trained.
Take me back, and I will come back.
    You truly are the Lord my God.
19 Lord, I wandered away from you.
    But I changed my heart and life.
Once I understood,
    I beat my breast with sorrow.
I am ashamed and disgraced
    because of the foolish things I did when I was young.’

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17 So there is hope(A) for your descendants,”
declares the Lord.
    “Your children(B) will return to their own land.

18 “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:
    ‘You disciplined(C) me like an unruly calf,(D)
    and I have been disciplined.
Restore(E) me, and I will return,
    because you are the Lord my God.
19 After I strayed,(F)
    I repented;
after I came to understand,
    I beat(G) my breast.
I was ashamed(H) and humiliated
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’(I)

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