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17 Your future is filled with hope, declares Yahweh.
    Your children will return to their own territory.

18 “I have certainly heard Ephraim mourn and say,
    ‘You disciplined me, and I was disciplined.
        I was like a young, untrained calf.
    Turn me, and I will be turned,
        because you are Yahweh my Elohim.
19 After I was turned around, I changed the way I thought and acted.
    After I was taught a lesson, I hung my head in shame.
    I was so ashamed and humiliated,
        because of all the stupid things I have done
            ever since 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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