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Jeremiah 31:15-22

Thus says the LORD:
	A voice is heard in Ramah,
	lamentation and bitter weeping.
	Rachel is weeping for her children;
	she refuses to be comforted for her children,
	because they are no more.
	Thus says the LORD:
	Keep your voice from weeping,
	and your eyes from tears;
	for there is a reward for your work,
says the LORD:
	they shall come back from the land of the enemy;
	there is hope for your future,
says the LORD:
	your children shall come back to their own country.
	Indeed I heard Ephraim pleading:
	"You disciplined me, and I took the discipline;
	I was like a calf untrained.
	Bring me back, let me come back,
	for you are the LORD my God.
	For after I had turned away I repented;
	and after I was discovered, I struck my thigh;
	I was ashamed, and I was dismayed
	because I bore the disgrace of my youth."
	Is Ephraim my dear son?
	Is he the child I delight in?
	As often as I speak against him,
	I still remember him.
	Therefore I am deeply moved for him;
	I will surely have mercy on him,
says the LORD.
	Set up road markers for yourself,
	make yourself guideposts;
	consider well the highway,
	the road by which you went.
	Return, O virgin Israel,
	return to these your cities.
	How long will you waver,
	O faithless daughter?
	For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth:
	a woman encompasses a man.